From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OsBBL-00010B-Jo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Sep 2010 09:06:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F556E0683 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 09:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641CCE0652 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5D01B405F for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:20:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.664 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.664 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.665, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id khrkOID89j3A for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from samba.agouros.de (mail.agouros.de [194.77.40.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 049BE1B405D for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:20:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rumba.agouros.de (rumba.localnet [192.168.1.1]) by samba.agouros.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26012778E66 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:20:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: by rumba.agouros.de (Postfix, from userid 9) id E5BFF2380B6; Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:20:20 +0200 (CEST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Path: elwood From: Konstantinos Agouros Newsgroups: gentoo.user Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Lilo vs. LVM Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1283674820.534397@rumba> References: <1283609461.568528@rumba> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.agouros.de X-Trace: rumba.localnet. 1283674820 22549 127.0.0.1 (5 Sep 2010 08:20:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: elwood@agouros.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 08:20:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.7.3 Cache-Post-Path: rumba!unknown@rumba X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 304c0d53-81cc-4f35-973b-ab0ff06c98e2 X-Archives-Hash: 54701c7b94a51b4af1c35cdcdd6616eb In oss.elmar@googlemail.com (Al) writes: >2010/9/4 Konstantinos Agouros : >> 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? >A don't think so. Grub has more features comparing lilo. More features >== more complex. Dealing with VM, LVM and lilo is already one level of >complexity to much if you ask. So how would You solve this? -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elwood@agouros.de Altersheimerstr. 1, 81545 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres