[Linux-disciples] Odd errors running lilo

Stephen R Laniel steve at laniels.org
Tue Jun 22 08:24:13 EDT 2004


I installed grub on my system yesterday, upgraded the kernel
to 2.6.7, and rebooted. I still got the LILO boot prompt,
for some reason. I'll figure that out separately. But I
noticed that I wasn't getting a boot menu when I rebooted,
so I edited lilo.conf; the (I think) relevant portions look
like so:

/*
prompt
timeout=10
# Boot up Linux by default.
#
default=2.6.7

image=/vmlinuz
# initrd=/initrd.img
  label=2.6.7
  read-only
# restricted
# alias=1

image=/vmlinuz.2.6.6-2
  label=2.6.6-2
  read-only
  optional
# restricted
# alias=2
*/

Now when I save those changes and run lilo, I get this:

/*
slaniel at JeffTweedy:/boot$ sudo lilo
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.00.17-ioctl (2004-04-19)(compat)
and kernel driver
Added 2.6.7 *
Added 2.6.6-2
*/

There *is* a /dev/mapper/control:

crw-------    1 root     root      10,  63 2004-06-18 20:59 /dev/mapper/control

I assume this either has something to do with a) the upgrade
to 2.6.7, or b) my having installed grub. What do you guys
think? Do I need to download libdevmapper from some
non-Debian source (because my 2.6.7 kernel is non-Debian)?
Or is it not as bad as it seems?

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