Bug 216367 - Update to RHEL 4.4 breaks lilo-21 for Linux software RAID
Summary: Update to RHEL 4.4 breaks lilo-21 for Linux software RAID
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: lilo
Version: 4.4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-11-20 00:04 UTC by Dave Miller
Modified: 2012-06-20 16:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-20 16:17:22 UTC
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Description Dave Miller 2006-11-20 00:04:39 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:17:22 UTC
Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue.


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