Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 216367
Update to RHEL 4.4 breaks lilo-21 for Linux software RAID
Last modified: 2012-06-20 12:17:22 EDT
Description of problem: Upgrade to RHWEL 4.4 breaks lilo-21. Attempting to run lilo after the upgrade results in: "/dev/dis: no such device" on systems using Linux software RAID. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lilo-21.4.4-26.1 with RHEL 4.4 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgarde via yum t RHEL 4.4 2. Attempt to run lilo to pick up a new kernel. Actual results: See problem description Expected results: lilo runs with no problems. Additional info: This appears to be fixed as of lilo-22. There is some conversion of lilo.conf required. There are several ways this can be accomplished but the easiest is probably to include the following line: raid-extra-boot=/dev/hde,/dev/hdg in the common section of lilo.conf. In this case, the "boot drive" consists of the mirror pair /dev/hde and /dev/hdg.
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