Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM

[Momesso Andrea]

Quoting Konstantinos Agouros <elwood@×××××××.de>:

> Hi,
>
> I have a VM with a gentoo guest. For testing I set it up with an LVM
> Volume Group that consisted of only one disk. Now I added a 2nd resized
> the FS but lilo stopped working. When I call it I get:
>
> # lilo
> device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address
> Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) failed
>
> /boot is also on the LVM volume.
>
> Is maybe grub the answer to my problem?
>

Sorry for the late reply, I am way back on this list reading :)

I have the same exact problem that I haven't been able to investigate  
yet, calling lilo gives me:

device-mapper: table ioctl failed: No such device or address
Fatal: device-mapper: dm_task_run(DM_DEVICE_TABLE) fail

The funny thing is that I can workaround that chrooting from a livecd,  
and invoking lilo from that, as described in the gentoo handbook.
The other funny thing is that this problem happens randomly, for  
example last week, I upgraded my kernel, run lilo from my system and  
it worked. If I try today it doesn't, but may work in a few days... I  
really don't know how to explain that, anyway I always keep a livecd  
around, just in case.

Should you switch to grub? I don't know, for me is not an option since  
I'm running a triple boot (osx, windows, and gentoo) on a macbook, and  
my gentoo partition is under lvm (root included since I cannot create  
anymore physical partitions) and last time I checked, grub-static  
(yes, it's a no-multilib profile), didn't support booting directly  
from an lvm partition.

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