When installing the Gentoo along with the RAID on a non-RAID (regular Linux) boot partition, LILO breaks - the full description could be found in this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2616062.html#2616062. GRUB, however works fine, without problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Follow the Installation handbook with the 2 harddrives 1. Run the "modprobe linear" command for the RAID support 1. On the step 4c, when creating the partition for the /root, change it to the "fd" type. 2. For the second harddrive create 2 (or) 1 partitions with the type "fd" 3. Run the command "mknod /dev/md0 b 9 0" to create a link for the RAID partition. 4. Run the command "mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=linear --raid- devices=2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdb2(1)" 5. Follow the installation handbook from the 4d, using "/dev/md0" as a root partition, instead of "/dev/hda3". 6. Try to run the "sbin/lilo". You will get an error. There is a bug filed for that. (100962) 7. Run the command "mknod /dev/md0 b 9 0" 8. Try to run /sbin/lilo. Actual Results: You will receive the error saying that lilo is available only for the RAID1 installation. Expected Results: LILO finish installation with out an error. GRUB loader works without any problem. It might not be the correct place to file the bug. Please forgive, since I just starting to work with the Linux. Thank you.
*** Bug 100967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100962 ***
The bug 100962 and this one are 2 different bugs that are related but they are not describing the same situation. One is about the documentation, second one is about the actual problem in the LILO installation. It says that the LILO is not supporting anything, but the RAID1 level. According to the bug description this is not the case here. Also, it might not be the best place to file the bug, probably the best place would be the LILO web-site. Please confirm.
LILO cannot boot from linear RAID, not a Gentoo bug.