linux-kernel - Re: LILO fatal error after going from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2

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Message-ID: <47BB1053.60409@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:22:27 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Rasmus Andersen <rasmus@...ebavle.dk>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LILO fatal error after going from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2

Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just upgraded from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2 and after booting into the
> new kernel and seeing that everything went right, I wanted to make the
> new kernel the default boot kernel. But running LILO I got
> 
>    Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined.
>    Check 'man lilo.conf' under 'disk=' and 'max-partitions='
> 
> (Full output from lilo -v 5 below). Apart from setting 2.6.24.2 as
> default this is the same lilo config as 2.6.22 was able to write fine.
> Can anyone tell me what I (or the kernel) am/is doing wrong?
> 

You have at least one file on a device mapper device (possibly an LVM 
module), and LILO doesn't understand it.

	-hpa
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