[Lilo-devel] problem reinstalling lilo (mdadm raid-1, not all raids metadata is 0.9 version)

[Ракуленко Александр Г]

Hello!


I'm using debian squeeze/sid with lilo and software raid-1 (mdadm).

I have two raid volumes:


Personalities : [raid1]

md124 : active (auto-read-only) raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]

240832 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md10 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]

38836041 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>


md124 is for boot and md10 is for everything else (LVM).

Here is the verbose scan:


root at lucky-star:~# mdadm --examine --scan -v

ARRAY /dev/md124 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
UUID=de5fa4a6:39058a9d:fd66ca52:4451c0ef

devices=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1

ARRAY /dev/md/md10 level=raid1 metadata=1.2 num-devices=2 
UUID=1ad20f04:ff83a95e:2970359f:7d4619f1 name=lucky-star:md10

devices=/dev/sdb2,/dev/sda2


I belive that the metadata version of my boot partition (md124) is 0.9 
that is the default for mdadm in debian, and therefor LILO can use it. 
In fact now LILO is working fine now.

My problem is that I forgot to put «compact» option and LILO boots 
slowly. I tried to add option to lilo.conf and this is what I got:



root at lucky-star:~# lilo -t

Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed

Fatal: Inconsistent Raid version information on /dev/md10

root at lucky-star:~#



So the probably buggy moment is that LILO checks metadata version for 
all raid volumes, disregarding what is said in lilo.conf:


root at lucky-star:~# grep md /etc/lilo.conf

boot=/dev/md124

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64

initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64

root at lucky-star:~#


As you can see there is nothing about /dev/md10 in LILO conf.


My LILO version is:

root at lucky-star:~# dpkg -l | grep lilo

ii lilo 1:22.8-10 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can load Linux 
and others


which is I belive the most «fresh» in Debian.


Please tell me — is it a bug? Is there a simple workaround? As for now I 
only can reinstall LILO when booting from a livecd and not assembling 
the md10 array (thats bad).


P.S. I don't know how I managed to install LILO in the past.