On (12/06/05 23:34), Graham Seaman wrote: > I just bought a new machine and installed the new debian on it. It has 2 > drives and I wanted > to run software raid on them so I was really impressed when it came up > as an install option. > The problem is, now I can't always boot: as far as I can work out (after > about 10 attempts, > so it does seem to be fairly consistent) the pattern is that on a reboot > the machine fails to > find the bootloader, but on a cold start following power off the > machine does find the > bootloader. Once booted, everything seems to be fine - except that > dmesg reports > a BIOS problem with pnp. > > Googling around tells me that the BIOS warning is probably unrelated and > safe to ignore,
You should probably disable pnp but I suspect that has no bearing on your soft boot problem > and that there were historical problems with grub as bootloader on raid > systems. Is there > anything I can do about this? Or should I use LILO instead? Or could > I have flaky hardware? > > I'm completely new to raid, so any advice in baby steps, please... :-) > You might find the following useful: http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO.html http://juerd.nl/site.plp/debianraid http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/ http://deb.riseup.net/storage/software-raid/ http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html?page=2 Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
