lilo has it's own definition of MAJOR, MINOR and MKDEV in geometry.h. Problem is that that's an old definition with 8bit minor numbers, while new (2.6.?+) definition have 32bit minor and 32bit major, as seen in /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h, or maybee 20bit minor and 12bit major, as seen in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/kdev_t.h (2.6.12). Problem arise for example for device 254, 963 - partitionable raid 15, partition 3. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup partitionable raid bigger that 4. 2. Run lilo. Actual Results: Lilo is complaining that it can't find devices from mentioned array in /dev and create temporary device nodes in /tmp with bad minor number. Expected Results: In my case, lilo should find correct devices in /dev/DEVfs/md/d15/part3. In all cases, lilo should both search and create devices with correct minor number. Note that this can be extremly dangerous if someone want to USE that devices in lilo, for example as boot device ... and do not forget that there will be more devices with non-16bit device number later. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.12-gentoo-r8-32 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r8-32 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r3, 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=athlon -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d aalib alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts caps cdr crypt cups curl dga directfb doc dvd emboss encode esd f77 fbcon flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg lcms lesstif libcaca libg++ libwww lirc mad mailwrapper mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg multislot mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline real samba sdl slang snmp spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vhosts videos vorbis wmf x86 xgetdefault xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: LDFLAGS
Created attachment 67300 [details, diff] Beta version of patch Note "bigger that 4" means "with number bigger that 4", ie. /dev/md/mdp4 ... Attached patch work for me, but I assume more complicated test could be needed for compatibility with older ... what owns /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h ... sys-libs/glibc (than 2.3.2-r9). Also there may be other points where 8bit minors are assumed, which I missed - lilo doesn't look like so clean piece of code. (And it's 1 am here ...)
you should e-mail the lilo maintainer about the issue: http://home.san.rr.com/johninsd/
upstream bug.
