Bug 137964 - lilo cannot boot from device-mapper targets (patch exists)
Summary: lilo cannot boot from device-mapper targets (patch exists)
Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i686 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Olaf Hering
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Reported: 2005-12-10 16:15 UTC by Walter Haidinger
Modified: 2008-10-14 06:56 UTC (History)
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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.