On Dec 7 2007 07:30, Nix wrote:
>On 6 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt verbalised:
>> On Dec 5 2007 19:29, Nix wrote:
>>>> On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if
>>>>> you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot)
>>>>
>>>> Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-)
>>>
>>>Well, your kernels must be on a 0.90-superblocked RAID-0 or RAID-1
>>>device. It can't handle booting off 1.x superblocks nor RAID-[56]
>>>(not that I could really hope for the latter).
>>
>> If the superblock is at the end (which is the case for 0.90 and 1.0),
>> then the offsets for a specific block on /dev/mdX match the ones for /dev/sda,
>> so it should be "easy" to use lilo on 1.0 too, no?
>
>Sure, but you may have to hack /sbin/lilo to convince it to create the
>superblock there at all. It's likely to recognise that this is an md
>device without a v0.90 superblock and refuse to continue. (But I haven't
>tested it.)
>
In that case, see above - move to a different bootloader.
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