Alvin Oga said: > i'd make sdb1 also "raid autodetect" > so you can boot even if sda or sdb dies
sd[ab]1 is my /boot partition, currently I have LILO installed into the MBR of sda, lilo can be a real bitch to install on anything but the first disk(usually get the dreaded LI message when trying to boot). Any ideas on how to configure LILO(or grub, don't have any experience but it looks like a nice bootloader) to install to the 2nd disk? I am unable to boot the system with a floppy, I tried for about 30 minutes last night and all attempts failed when the SCSI driver tried to load. really strange. the VERY SAME driver/kernel rev(self compiled) boots perfectly from HD. The rescue kernel on the debian CD is 2.2.20 which doesn't have raid 0.90 support nor reiserfs support. I wish I could make a boot floppy that had a kernel that didn't puke. The problem was easily solved in the 2.2.x series, passing the kernel option aic7xxx=no_reset always worked around the errors(Intel L440GX+ motherboard). But this option doesn't work, even tried the aic7xxx_old driver(which supports the no_reset option), the new driver fails as well. I had the same error about 7 months ago while trying to install SuSE 8 on the same kind of motherboard(slightly newer rev, supported P3 processors). A real pisser though :) I suppose I could break out the bblcd stuff and make a new bblcd with the updated kernel. > to swap out a disk > > # raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/sdb2 > # raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/sdb2 > # > # -- after adding a new disk... watch it resync > # raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/sdb2 > > more sw raid stuff > http://www.1U-Raid5.net/HowTo/Commands.uhow2.txt that worked wonderfully :) thanks! I rebooted the system earlier and raidhotadd worked, then when i saw this mail I yanked the drive again and tried the above commands and it's almost done rebuilding the last array. > anybody wanna use 12 laptop drives ( 80GB each ) for their raid boxes ?? ( > its an interesting idea ) 80gig laptop drives! damn. last time I checked on laptop drives the biggest I saw was about 30gig .. I need to swap the drive on my thinkpad T20, the drive in there seems louder then my 5-disk raid array in my redhat box(7200+RPM SCSI disks), never heard a disk so loud before. thanks again nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
