hi ya
> > - try using syslinux to make your boot floppy
> > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/
> > ( see the Boot.syslinux section )
>
> yep made a boot floppy, but made it manually, the system pukes when
> it tries to load the scsi driver. lots of bus timeouts, and eventually
probably needs a kernel w/ scsi built into the kernel
or initrd .. which in turns load the scsi driver
> just hangs. Tried 2 different aic7xxx drivers, and 3-4 different kernel
> configs(based on 2.4.20).
>
> > you do NOT install lilo into each disk separately, as if it was separate
> > disks
>
> but if disk 1 fails, there is no bootloader on disk 2 ..so I need some
> sort of bootloader on disk 2 if I am to try to boot this way. Unless I
> can get a workin boot disk.
you need to fix lilo.conf or equiv
boot=/dev/md0
root=/dev/md0
.... NOT /dev/sda1 ... /dev/sdb1...
( and it has to be "raid autodetect"
c ya
alvin
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