On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:33:33AM +0100, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > some trivia first: > - Debian's lilo is patched with an unofficial patch for device-mapper > support which was not updated since mid 2005 > - Debian just hits the problem, but it seems to be a common problem if > I look at google queries; see also: > https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/lilo-installer/+bug/23835 > > The conclusion of most threads / (open) bug reports / forums is that > you should not have /boot on md / lvm / whatever, but since this used > to work, I suppose we are somehow bound to continue supporting this.
If that's the case, the installer team needs to print a much bigger warning. As of a month or two ago, they just say you can't use Grub for boot-on-raid, but that Lilo works (that's how I got my system set up). As an irrelevant aside, I actually tried to set up a separate /boot with grub and/or lilo, but neither seemed to be able to handle that configuration at all (I don't remember why at the moment; I think it smelled like some weird Epia idiosyncracy). Daniel
