Bug 6339

Summary: "/sbin/lilo -R" fails on a soft-raid1 boot disk
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Stephen Tweedie <sct>
Component: liloAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description Stephen Tweedie 1999-10-25 15:56:09 UTC 
lilo itself runs perfectly well when installing on a system
which has both / and /boot on separate software raid1
devices.  It installs on both sda and sdb as expected.

"lilo -R", on the other hand, fares less well: it results in

  [root@sarek sct]# /sbin/lilo -R test
  boot = /dev/sdb, map = /boot/map.0815
  [boot@sarek sct]

and next boot (from /dev/sda) does _not_ run the requested
new image.  For both / and /boot, /dev/sdb is listed before
/dev/sda in /proc/mdstat --- don't blame me, that's how the
rh6.1 installer left things.

--Stephen <sct>
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-04 22:20:59 UTC 
Assigned to dledford
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-04 04:53:48 UTC 
I haven't seen this behavior in newer releases; can you replicate it there?
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2002-06-29 21:47:28 UTC 
Closing due to inactivity.  If you have further information, please reopen this bug.
Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:47:33 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.