Comment 14 for bug 23835

This is still happening on 8.04; every kernel upgrade we do (via apt-get dist-upgrade) gives these lilo errors. We are fully lvm, with a separate lvm boot partition. For instance after today's apt-get dist-upgrade that updated the kernel and initramfs:

update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-server
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
   Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/vg1/lv1'
Warning: Name change: '/dev/dm-1' -> '/dev/vg1/lv2'
Warning: Name change: '/dev/dm-2' -> '/dev/vg1/lv3'
Added Linux *
Added LinuxOLD
The Master boot record of /dev/sda has been updated.
Warning: /dev/sdb is not on the first disk
The Master boot record of /dev/sdb has been updated.

% df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg1-lv3 461G 43G 395G 10% /
...
/dev/mapper/vg1-lv1 101M 64M 33M 67% /boot

lilo.conf bits:
boot=/dev/md0
raid-extra-boot=mbr-only
image=/vmlinuz
        label=Linux
        read-only
        append="root=/dev/mapper/vg1-lv3 "
        initrd=/initrd.img

% sudo vgdisplay -v
    Finding all volume groups
    Finding volume group "vg1"
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name vg1
  System ID
  Format lvm2
  Metadata Areas 1
  Metadata Sequence No 24
  VG Access read/write
  VG Status resizable
  MAX LV 0
  Cur LV 3
  Open LV 3
  Max PV 0
  Cur PV 1
  Act PV 1
  VG Size 465.76 GB
  PE Size 4.00 MB
  Total PE 119234
  Alloc PE / Size 119234 / 465.76 GB
  Free PE / Size 0 / 0
  VG UUID G3cY9t-MZDF-ghxc-xkdG-k5Zq-gfsj-be8CG8

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name /dev/vg1/lv1
  VG Name vg1
  LV UUID BikR2Q-jjnM-2TbL-h1eQ-JwtD-36IC-IflP2h
  LV Write Access read/write
  LV Status available
  # open 1
  LV Size 104.00 MB
  Current LE 26
  Segments 1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors 0
  Block device 254:0

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name /dev/vg1/lv2
  VG Name vg1
  LV UUID vCy8ea-ZC4C-VpCb-S1NV-w0lj-d0LB-URlJQP
  LV Write Access read/write
  LV Status available
  # open 2
  LV Size 1.95 GB
  Current LE 500
  Segments 1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors 0
  Block device 254:1

  --- Logical volume ---
  LV Name /dev/vg1/lv3
  VG Name vg1
  LV UUID uSdl3j-Wk2p-WH8G-5IGH-thG0-MTdE-KPGq6H
  LV Write Access read/write
  LV Status available
  # open 1
  LV Size 463.70 GB
  Current LE 118708
  Segments 1
  Allocation inherit
  Read ahead sectors 0
  Block device 254:2

  --- Physical volumes ---
  PV Name /dev/md0
  PV UUID EJ222m-fxth-xR5T-9YLa-D2Lx-fq2A-l0hqQC
  PV Status allocatable
  Total PE / Free PE 119234 / 0