Re: lilo on raid5 root doesn't work

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_lab.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 12/05/04 

Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:05:05 +0100

Greg Lee <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.misc Greg Lee <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu>:
> > > I moved my root filesystem from an ordinary parition
> > > onto a raid5 array and lilo stopped working. It complains
> > > "Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported for boot images".
> > [..]
>
> > > I don't see what I'm doing wrong. Do you think it's
> > > a bug in lilo? I compiled a lilo 22.6.1 and got the
> > > same result.
>
> > Why should there be a bug in lilo? It told you exactly the
> > problem, it can't have /boot on raid 5, nor can grub (IIRC).
>
> But /boot is not on raid5. It's on an ordinary partition.
> I said that.

No it isn't. Lilo is telling you that. Or something else of yours
apart from the boot image and boot map is on a raid5 partition, like the
lilo boot message file, or the boot splash background. Anyway, you
know what it is! We don't.

But it SAYS it is the boot image. So check. Run with -v -v -v.

Peter

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