Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > the major fe is the old evms major nr. afaik evms switched to newer 117. > no idea if the libdevmapper patch from lilo got updated in debian? evms have no own major in 2.6 as it uses devmapper and md for the work. devmapper have

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > hello ross, > > adding the evms maintainer on cc. Trimming Mark Garey, our sysadmin, from the distribution, as I doubt he wants the blow-by-blow. > > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread maximilian attems
hello sesse, On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:04:58AM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > parse_numeric() is rudimentary lilo support of initramfs-tools. > > it should work now for most cases of usual block devices. > > my small tes

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:55:53AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > parse_numeric() is rudimentary lilo support of initramfs-tools. > it should work now for most cases of usual block devices. > my small test programm show that it is not able to parse > correctly "fe" it translates that to 254 inst

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-26 Thread maximilian attems
hello ross, adding the evms maintainer on cc. On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I've looked at the initramfs image and tried to trace through > > execution by inspection (I'm not at the machine). I may be off base, > > but here's

Bug#357538: immediate cause of problem diagnosed

2006-03-20 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:35 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've looked at the initramfs image and tried to trace through > execution by inspection (I'm not at the machine). I may be off base, > but here's what I noticed. In short, it looks as if the root > parameter of /dev/evms/newroot in lilo.conf