From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913 Description of problem: The configured kernel image is on a logical volume. When lilo is called the kernel panics. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get lilo 22.3.4, compile, install 2. create a logical volume, put the kernel image on it 3. create lilo.conf, run lilo Actual Results: Kernel panicked. Easy to reproduce. The same behaviour with previous kernels and also on RH 7.3. Expected Results: Ok, lilo shouldn't cause kernel panic. If this method of kernel placement is not supported it (the kernel) should report an error. Additional info: The bug is caused by the LV_BMAP ioctl call from the lilo's geometry.c. In fact there is a notice in that source file about some widely distributed kernels which seem to just oops during that call. Anyway, it should not happen IMHO. (I have not found a soultion on the net. The one-year-old LVM patch which can be found is for much older kernels.)
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