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Dieter R.

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Apr 24, 2007, 12:09:12 PM4/24/07
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Hi,

if you run slackware-current and do the upgrade to lilo-22.8-i486-1 you
will need to load the dm-mod kernel module before running lilo in order
to prevent you from a sequence of error messages:

# modprobe dm-mod
# lilo

Without dm-mod you will see:

# lilo
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.09 (2006-08-15)(compat) and kernel driver
Added Linux *

Kind regards
Dieter

Grant

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Apr 24, 2007, 5:18:55 PM4/24/07
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:09:12 +0000 (UTC), "Dieter R." <use...@d-ra.ath.cx> wrote:

>Without dm-mod you will see:
>
># lilo
>/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
>Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
>Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
>/proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
>Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
>Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
>Incompatible libdevmapper 1.02.09 (2006-08-15)(compat) and kernel driver
>Added Linux *

But, lilo correctly writes out the mapped sectors, so the messages
seem harmless, if somewhat alarming.

Grant.
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