On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 11:33 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > ok, adding discs works much better with grub.
I know. I've used grub for non-LVM installations. But I also love the reorganizing convenience of LVM. Does grub now work with LVM roots then? This was the reason I used lilo (well, actually, debian-installer selected lilo for me, because I'd done an LVM root installation). I know of and loathe the /boot partition workaround (see RedHat)- it's nasty and uses up disk that I would like for other things. > lowering the severity as lilo is not default. > but please become familiar with the carriage return on your keyboard > and format mails to ~80 columns. Evolution is stupid sometimes, my apologies. > > can you paste your lilo.conf? OK. Here it is. I've edited all the verbage from the installer. As you can see it's a vanilla lilo config generated by the installer. # /etc/lilo.conf - See: `lilo(8)' and `lilo.conf(5)', boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/mapper/cweekslap-root map=/boot/map delay=20 vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 initrd=/initrd.img image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional # restricted # alias=2 initrd=/initrd.img.old > > > Nothing is able to work permanently though. I can't make a lilo root= > > option stick- it turns into numbers. > > have you tried to use the append="root=/dev/mapper/cweekslap-root" > instead and without the root lilo.conf param? > afaik that is the way that is recommended for evms on lilo too see end > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357538 > I have not. I will look into this. Thank you. I have another tentative solution that I will investigate as well when time permits. It appears that LVM allows you to make the minor node of a partition persistent. I shall see if I can use that to force the minor node of the root partition to zero. Thank you for your help, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]