ianw1974 Posted September 8, 2008 Report Share Posted September 8, 2008 Here's the section in the Errata about lilo, grub and RAID: 2008.1_Errata That errata is a bit of a cop-out on Mandriva's side, since every other distro can use grub with raid. Mandy obviously have some sort of implementation problem which stops it from working, and so rather than fix it, they just say use lilo instead. I'd accept it if other distros couldn't do it as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 I've pm'd adamw about this, as I'd like to find out why Mandriva does it this way and also why the bugs are not being addressed, but giving you an alternative and not fixing the grub implementation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Supposedly fixed on 2009 RC1. I've been checking tonight by converting drives, but was getting a boot issue. Will clean install RC1 with Raid 1, and see if it is any better this way. If the same boot error occurs, then I guess it's still slightly broken for the Raid 1 setup. Grub will install to the bootloader, just the final part now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dude67 Posted September 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2008 Is there a way to re-install lilo? Yesterday I had the situation where I needed to reinstall WinXP MBR (FIXMBR) and it naturally wrote over lilo. Now, when I tried to rescue with Mandriva 2008.1 Free DVD, the only option was to reinstall grub - not lilo. I also tried 2007.1 and 2008 Powerpack DVDs, but no. I finally had to install 2008.1 again to get my PC dual booting again. The installation went fine and I didn't have to format anything else than root-partition and the RAID1 array remained intact. But it was a real pain to have to install the whole Mandriva 2008.1 again just to have lilo reinstalled. Seems quite odd if you can repair grub but not lilo... is it so? :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 If the lilo package is installed and your /etc/lilo.conf is OK, then just execute this command: /sbin/lilo -v Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Yes, you could have booted any LiveCD and then chrooted into your install on your disk, and then run lilo to reinstall it again. For example, if my system had the following: /dev/sda1 = swap /dev/sda2 = / /dev/sda3 = /home then, I would do this from LiveCD: mkdir /mnt/mysystem mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/mysystem mount -t proc proc /mnt/mysystem/proc chroot /mnt/mysystem /bin/bash source /etc/profile now, check the /etc/lilo.conf has all the stuff you had before, which it should, and then just do: lilo or: /sbin/lilo and then you just need to do: exit umount /mnt/mysystem/proc /mnt/mysystem reboot and you'd be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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