Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: the major fe is the old evms major nr. afaik evms switched to newer 117. no idea if the libdevmapper patch from lilo got updated in debian? evms have no own major in 2.6 as it uses devmapper and md for the work. devmapper have a

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread maximilian attems
hello ross, adding the evms maintainer on cc. On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I've looked at the initramfs image and tried to trace through execution by inspection (I'm not at the machine). I may be off base, but here's what

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: parse_numeric() is rudimentary lilo support of initramfs-tools. it should work now for most cases of usual block devices. my small test programm show that it is not able to parse correctly fe it translates that to 254 instead

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread maximilian attems
hello sesse, On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:04:58AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: parse_numeric() is rudimentary lilo support of initramfs-tools. it should work now for most cases of usual block devices. my small test

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: hello ross, adding the evms maintainer on cc. Trimming Mark Garey, our sysadmin, from the distribution, as I doubt he wants the blow-by-blow. On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800,

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: I've looked at the initramfs image and tried to trace through execution by inspection (I'm not at the machine). I may be off base, but here's what I noticed. In short, it looks as if the root parameter of /dev/evms/newroot in lilo.conf is