On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:27:11AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 07:20 +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote: > > On 2008-06-16, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That doesn't strike me as a valid configuration. Infact, it shouldn't > > > work with lilo because lilo wants /boot to be on a real device. The fact > > > that it does should be considered a bug, not a feature. > > > > lilo-22.8$ head debian/patches/01_devmapper.dpatch > > #! /bin/sh -e > > ## > > ## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch. > > ## DP: Patch to make lilo understand device-mapper block devices. > > ## DP: Bug#229932 > > > > That patch only makes lilo map LVMs to an appropriate physical device. > It does not guarantee that you will be able to boot off of an LV on a > physical volume. As such, the behaviour is still undefined. > > Consider a situation where /boot spans multiple PVs, and you will see > lilo fail to boot the system correctly. > > If /boot happens to be on a single PV, then it will work, but it is > still not guaranteed.
Il will only work if all extents containing initramfs and kernel are contiguous and ordered on the physical volume. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
