** Description changed:
I installed feisty from the 4/14/07 alternate CD (to support software
RAID) and was able to boot thanks to the fix to bug #103177.
The system worked fine for a day or so - then the update manager
provided kernel 2.6.20-15, which was not able to install (not sure why).
Apparently the failed install ruined my boot setup / LILO and now I am
unable to boot. When I try to boot, I see the following message:
"EBDA is big; Kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage"
System is configured as follows:
4 SATA drives:
1x74GB containing windows XP;
3x250GB configured as 2 RAIDs:
md0: RAID1: 10GB:
/
- md1: RAID5: ~490GB: LVM:
+ md1: RAID5: 480GB: LVM:
/home
/swp
/tmp
My guess is that the updater didn't understand how to make the changes
to LILO on the RAID1 volume. The "recovery" install apparently does not
know how to do this either because I am not presented with my md0
partition when I try to fix it - instead, I get only home, swp, and tmp
(from md1) and the component partitions for the RAIDs and the XP drive.
Because I use LILO rather than GRUB (I think this was necessary to boot
from RAID), I do not have any boot-menu options. I do not know of any
other way to boot and I would like to avoid wiping my md0 volume because
it (hopefully still) has important information in /etc/openvpn,
/etc/apache2, and /var.
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failed kernel update followed by boot failure
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107249
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