From: Marco Shaw <marco@nbnet.nb.ca>
To: linux-lvm@e35.marxmeier.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] SuSE/LVM boot problem
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 21:15:58 -0300 (ADT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005022111490.956-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000502114113.C1608@archimedes.suse.com>
On Tue, 2 May 2000 dgould@suse.com wrote:
Well I just have the eval version so no 2nd CD. I tried creating a lilo
disk with another system, but I guess lilo needs the same
boot.b/system.map files to create a lilo disk?
So now I'm left with creating lilo on a disk somehow with another
system... How could I create it? Otherwise, I could always install a
copy of SuSE 6.3 in a VMWare VM and create a disk there...
Marco
> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:51:31AM +0000, Michael Marxmeier wrote:
> > >
> > > I lost my floppy with lilo on it. Now I have to reconstruct it. I've
> > > tried booting in rescue mode, but even the rescue SuSE CD doesn't appear to
> > > have LVM support.
> > >
> > > What can I do at this point?
> >
> > Use the installation disk - it has LVM support while the Rescue disk has not.
> > You can boot from the 2nd CD-ROM into the old Yast, do a "expert install"
> > and switch to a shell.
> >
>
> Be careful. I have found that the install disks are very happy to create
> systems that cannot be booted because lilo does not know about lvm.
>
> On this topic, what is needed to make lvm work for both / and /boot with
> full lilo support? I think it somewhat limits the utility of lvm not to
> be able to make a fully lvm system, and might be tempted to do some of
> the heavy lifting if it is not too gruesome.
>
> -dg
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-03 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-02 5:20 [linux-lvm] SuSE/LVM boot problem Marco Shaw
2020-11-27 16:17 ` Michael Marxmeier
2000-05-02 18:41 ` dgould
2000-05-02 21:22 ` Jan Niehusmann
2000-05-02 22:18 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2000-05-03 10:05 ` Ulf Bartelt
2000-05-31 8:40 ` Andi Kleen
2000-05-03 0:15 ` Marco Shaw [this message]
2000-05-03 7:38 Michael Marxmeier
2000-05-03 16:53 ` dgould
2000-05-31 9:01 ` Andi Kleen
2000-05-31 16:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2000-05-31 16:18 ` Andi Kleen
2000-05-31 18:25 ` Michael Marxmeier
2000-06-01 12:15 ` Ulf Bartelt
2000-06-01 9:01 ` David Gould
2000-05-03 18:09 Andreas Dilger
2000-05-03 21:01 ` Eric M. Hopper
2000-05-03 23:50 Andreas Dilger
2000-05-04 2:28 ` dgould
2000-05-04 5:21 ` Michael Loftis
2000-05-04 2:38 ` Eric M. Hopper
2000-05-04 12:18 Shaw, Marco
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