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Package: lilo
Version: 22.6.1-7.1
Severity: important
I found that the «root=» parameter used by lilo was wrong: in may case
it had to be fd01 while it was fd00. I traced the problem until I found
that my root file system is mapped in two different ways to major/minor
codes:
sh-3.1$ sudo ls -l /dev/.static/dev/mapper/mirrorvg-newrootlv
/dev/mapper/mirrorvg-newrootlv
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 2006-11-16 19:29 /dev/mapper/mirrorvg-newrootlv
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 2006-10-11 18:01
/dev/.static/dev/mapper/mirrorvg-newrootlv
sh-3.1$
I am not sure about what package creates all nodes
in /dev/.static/dev/mapper/, but I think it is lilo.
Bye,
Giuseppe
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:29:48AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> I think that the problem is that vgscan creates devices with different
> minor than the one used in the previous boot (with a different kernel).
This is no bug. The devmapper devices are assigned dynamicaly.
> 1. deleted all device files in /dev/.static/dev/mapper/
/dev/mapper is to be created by libdevmapper, don't mess with it.
> In order to boot this machine, I had to specify root=fd01 at the lilo
> prompt. This is shown by /proc/cmdline
No, you have to use the correct device name, not a number.
Bastian
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