----- Original Message -----
From: "Jieming Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Richard Bollinger'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "linux raid mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 2:08 PM
Subject: RE: strange error with lilo: "open /tmp/dev.0: No such device"?
> Hi Rich,
>
> I removed the default LILO (came with Redhat 6.2), and then installed the
new version again. It did the same. Here is what I received:
>
> 1) lilo -v:
> LILO version 21.4-3, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
> 2) lilo -v 4:
> LILO version 21.4-3, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
> 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
> Released 06-May-2000 and compiled at 12:05:51 on May 31 2000.
>
...
>
> Also, I found that the size of /sbin/lilo is smaller than the one I
compiled (the original
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 195714 May 31 12:06
/tmp/lilo/lilo-21.4.3/lilo
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74096 Jun 1 07:36 /sbin/lilo
>
The size difference is due to /sbin/lilo being stripped and the other copy
not being stripped. On mine (compiled on 2.0.38 w gcc 2.7.2.3) the sizes
are 181773 and 69114 bytes.
Let us see /proc/mdstat and the results of a "df" command as well.
Still a puzzler - I've never see lilo so quiet!
Rich B
