Bug 323253 – sys-boot/lilo-22.8-r2: installation of the bootloader on top of LVM2 may fail

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Constantin Baranov 2010-06-08 20:30:11 UTC]

DM library expects a device be called either by target name
or by full device node path name. But LILO uses just name
of device node after recursive symlink resolution.
That accidentally works on old lvm2/udev layout
(/dev/mapper/target nodes), but fails on the latest
layout (/dev/dm-N nodes).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Constantin Baranov 2010-06-08 20:33:48 UTC]

Created attachment 234587 [details, diff]
Use just path to device.

This patch removes wrong algorithm and lets LILO
to name devices by full path either directly to device node
or to symlink. Both cases are OK to latest DM.
I didn't check if this is compatible with older DM.

[Comment 2 Michael Weber (RETIRED) 2010-06-09 00:58:37 UTC]

Hi Constantine,

where is this patch from? Does upstream know about it?

Michael

[Comment 3 Constantin Baranov 2010-06-09 07:30:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> where is this patch from? Does upstream know about it?

I've created this patch yesterday. I don't know where the upstream is,
lilo's homepage is dead. I posted the patch only here.

[Comment 4 Tony Vroon (RETIRED) 2010-06-09 13:33:22 UTC]

Don't do that. Single issue, single bug. There is an existing bug for that other issue.

[Comment 5 Constantin Baranov 2010-07-15 16:44:49 UTC]

It seems that bug is fixed in lilo-23.0.

[Comment 6 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2013-07-28 10:07:25 UTC]

(In reply to Constantin Baranov from comment #5)
> It seems that bug is fixed in lilo-23.0.

Closing then because 23.2 is marked stable.