Package: lilo
Version: 1:22.8-10
Severity: normal
I've a setup where a live system is booting from USB and I'm
redirecting the underlying loop device with the according ioctl to
move the live system to RAM while its running.
When 'eject /dev/sdX'-ing the device the device disappears from the
'fdisk -l' output but is still visible through /proc/partitions.
If I'm executing lilo inside a chroot then I get:
Cannot proceed. Maybe you need to add this to your lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible
(real error shown below)
Fatal: VolumeID read error: sector 0 of /dev/sdb not readable
As soon as I execute 'echo 1 > /sys/block/sdb/device/delete'
or physically unplug the device lilo stops complaining.
Of course I could just add "disk=/dev/sdb inaccessible" to the
lilo.conf but I don't understand why that's needed at all.
I don't have any references to /dev/sdb inside my lilo.conf but just
WRT /dev/sda. Issue #409285 holds a similar issue where similar
questions were asked but not answered.
Could you please shed some light on that why the "inaccessible"
option is needed even though the disk in question isn't considered
as lilo target at all?
regards,
-mika-
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