hi ya martin On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Martin Petersen wrote:
> Dear Debian Users, > > I am a intermediate user of Debian an SuSE Linux. But I have a Problem, > which I don`t seem to get solved. > > (Plz excuse my English, I am currently in german law exams, so > everything I say and write should be regarded as nonsense ;). > > I want to set up a Software Raid Box with the Raidtools2 in two > identical IDE Disks. I followed this tutorial > http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/schoppa/raid/woody-raid-howto.html and > tried to help myself with the Software-Raid-Howto. > > The idea is to install Linux on hda, compile a kernel with raid support, > set up the raid on hdb (with hda as the failed-disk 1 in /etc/raidtab), > copy the system to raid and then zap the installation on hda. minor nit-picking, you should use hda and hdc .... having 2 disks on the same ide cable doesnt always allow for proper raid setup .... if hda whackily dies, hdb is also dead under some bios > Everything runs fine until the moment to boot from raid. as justin suggested, make sure root= and boot= for lilo.conf is setup properly > The author of my tutorial suggests to create a boot disk first: as you're "author" states, you need to first boot the system > dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=2k you're assuming that the kernel ( /vmlinuz ) supports raid and that it fits on one floppy > rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/md0 > rdev -r /dev/fd0 0 > rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 other ways to boot the system ... - get a cdrom that supports raid - build a custom kernel w/ raid support - lots of fun stuff http://www.linux-consulting.com/Boot the assumption, is that once the system boots, you can re-run lilo to have it self booting w/ raid setup w/o external floppy or cdroms and that its still boots when hda is removed the other assumption, that it will properly mirror itself which i doubt if the partition type is NOT "raid partition type" (FD) as opposed to linux (82) --- what is the contents of your /etc/raidtab ?? have fun alvin > This disk doesn't work for me. I know that he writes the kernel to fd0. > But the system boots from hda, so I guess I didn`t configure Lilo correctly. > > Could someone out there plese drop me a few lines 'bout how to setup the > lilo-configuration? > > Thank you in advance, > > Martin from Cologne > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
