From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 21:15:58 -0300 (ADT) From: Marco Shaw Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] SuSE/LVM boot problem In-Reply-To: <20000502114113.C1608@archimedes.suse.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@e35.marxmeier.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 > >