Alvin Oga said: > > that's the 1st of the dozen magic test... > - power off and disconnect a disks and try for hands off reboot > after having written a 2-4GB file is my test for resyncing > >> Even if you completelly clear a partition but don't format it you can >> still boot from hda1 to a raid volume. > > yes... because MBR is not inside /dev/hda1 ... > >> I did this accidentally and the system still booted even though hda1 had >> no partitions on it. > > saved to your but eh .. :-) one remembers best from ones mistakes :-0 > > that would depend also on mkinitrd and all of its contents it has > and stuff you add afterward before you finally close it down to make the > customized initrd.gz files
Whatup alvin, I just said the hell with mkinitrd, as you know. If you have directions on using initrd to work with raid, LET ME KNOW. If I don't have to recompile the kernel, then great! You can use systemimager for complete remote backup of a system. I use it to remote upgrade/downgrade desktops. Amazing! The lilo entry is really really simple for raid, after much much trial trial error. just set root=/dev/md0 Then update fstab on your new root partition. As mentioned before I will be posting complete directions, I am writing them now. Need to figure out what tests to use on my system, what are your base raid tests you run? Boot off disk1, boot disk2, etc.... I could never figure out grub, I wish I could have, but I also gave up on that. Stage1,Stage2 loader, never got it to work. Once i figured out how to use mdadm I like it, because it is easier then raidtools2 to use and it notifies you if a disk dies. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
