Bug 137964

Summary:	lilo cannot boot from device-mapper targets (patch exists)
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Walter Haidinger <walter.haidinger>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Olaf Hering <ohering>
Status:	VERIFIED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jplack, jsrain, mls, pth
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Walter Haidinger 2005-12-10 16:15:24 UTC

Hi!

Despite SuSE 10 comes with LILO 22.7 and additional patches 
(checked lilo-22.7-7.src.rpm), the device-mapper patch is still missing.

Because of this, lilo cannot boot from device-mapper targets, 
i.e. root on LVM.

There is already a patch available from Christophe Saout (dm-crypt):
http://www.saout.de/misc/lilo-22.6.1-devmapper.patch

Thanks, Walter

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2006-01-30 09:42:42 UTC

AFAIK Hubert isn't back yet.  Please could anyone apply and test
this patch?

Comment 2 Christoph Thiel 2008-04-17 13:23:03 UTC

Reassign to lilo maintainer.

Comment 4 Olaf Hering 2008-10-14 06:37:25 UTC

grub can boot or can not boot from device-mapper, no idea.
Use an extra /boot partition.
Our config tools do suggest an extra /boot, and they default to an extra /boot partition.

Comment 5 Olaf Hering 2008-10-14 06:56:55 UTC

And lilo 22.8 as shipped with SLES11 has a version of this patch already.