On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:37:34AM +0200, Joerg Platte wrote: > Am Montag, 16. Juni 2008 schrieb William Pitcock: > Hi, > > > That patch only makes lilo map LVMs to an appropriate physical device. > > It does not guarantee that you will be able to boot off of an LV on a > > physical volume. As such, the behaviour is still undefined. > > > > Consider a situation where /boot spans multiple PVs, and you will see > > lilo fail to boot the system correctly. > > > > If /boot happens to be on a single PV, then it will work, but it is > > still not guaranteed. > > On some of my boxes all filesystems are on LVMs and the Debian installer used > lilo to boot the systems. It would be nice if these systems can still be used > with future Debian versions. Please remove lilo only if there's a full > replacement available.
Lilo is already removed from testing and will not be in lenny until somebody steps up and cares for it. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]