Need help to file installer bug

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Carr
Hi folks, I'm wondering where to file this bug - last time I filed it against debian-installer, but it got reassigned to kernel-source, so I want to get it right this time. Why am I filing the same bug again? Well, a lot has changed in 18 months - except my hardware, that is. My original bugs ar

Re: Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Carr
Thanks Clive - but I've heard that grub is really bad with LVM2. In fact, the latest Debian Etch installer still explicitly removes the option to install grub when it detects that / is on an LVM2 volume. I did eventually solve the problem, by starting sshd in the installer shell (chroot /mnt/VG1-R

Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Carr
Sorry, sending again in plain text. Also added note at the bottom about non-subscription. -Original Message- From: Chris Carr Sent: 07 February 2006 14:19 To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject:Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle d

Lilo fails with "sorry, don't know how to handle device 0xfe00" (LVM2)

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Carr
Hi folks - here is the system: hda - 3GB IDE drive (all hda1) hdb - ATAPI CDROM hdc - 3.6GB IDE drive (all hdc1) hda1 & hdc1 make LVM2 volume group VG1 (6.6GB). VG1 has four logical volumes: VG1-Root 2.7G (my original system which I am trying to rescue) VG1-Swap 128M VG1-Swap2 128M VG1-NewRoot