Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM
Quoting Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de: Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get: # lilo device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed /boot is also on the LVM volume. Is maybe grub the answer to my problem? Sorry for the late reply, I am way back on this list reading :) I have the same exact problem that I haven't been able to investigate yet, calling lilo gives me: device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) fail The funny thing is that I can workaround that chrooting from a livecd, and invoking lilo from that, as described in the gentoo handbook. The other funny thing is that this problem happens randomly, for example last week, I upgraded my kernel, run lilo from my system and it worked. If I try today it doesn't, but may work in a few days... I really don't know how to explain that, anyway I always keep a livecd around, just in case. Should you switch to grub? I don't know, for me is not an option since I'm running a triple boot (osx, windows, and gentoo) on a macbook, and my gentoo partition is under lvm (root included since I cannot create anymore physical partitions) and last time I checked, grub-static (yes, it's a no-multilib profile), didn't support booting directly from an lvm partition. -- TopperH http://topperh.ath.cx This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM
In aanlkti=z6rz7umnm3jbcupbvbehpqzt4xsd=l_hfa...@mail.gmail.com oss.el...@googlemail.com (Al) writes: 2010/9/4 Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de: Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get: # lilo device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed /boot is also on the LVM volume. Is maybe grub the answer to my problem? A don't think so. Grub has more features comparing lilo. More features == more complex. Dealing with VM, LVM and lilo is already one level of complexity to much if you ask. So how would You solve this? -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Altersheimerstr. 1, 81545 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
[gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM
Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get: # lilo device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed /boot is also on the LVM volume. Is maybe grub the answer to my problem? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Altersheimerstr. 1, 81545 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM
2010/9/4 Konstantinos Agouros elw...@agouros.de: Hi, I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get: # lilo device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed /boot is also on the LVM volume. Is maybe grub the answer to my problem? A don't think so. Grub has more features comparing lilo. More features == more complex. Dealing with VM, LVM and lilo is already one level of complexity to much if you ask. Al
