On Tuesday 23 March 2004 18:27, Michael Webber wrote: > UPDATE on bottom > > [snip] > ________________________________________ > my swap partition is sda1. I have turned swap off and I have /dev/md0 > = the mirrored swap ...... but I cant get the sda2 (all the data and > stuff) ... > so you say I just need to restart? I have tried that but ... it just > gives errors.. do I need to boot a special way? >
So after turning swap off, are you able to initialize the array using /dev/sda1? If not, what is the error message you get? You can't get the sda2 array to come up until you boot without using /dev/sda2, or you boot from the array. I forgot your ultimate goal here, but if you want to use raid for your root partition, you'll have to follow the basic path of: 1) install your system to one of your partitions that will ultimately be part of your raidset. 2) create your raid set with the drives you boot from marked as damaged disks. 3) copy your system to your active, one disk only raid array 4) compile a kernel with raid support built in, or make sure your raid drivers are part of the initial ram disk 5) reboot with that kernel 6) add your "damaged" disks to the array Note that there's no reason to raid your swap space. The kernel does this for you. You should probably google for more detailed instructions, as there are plenty of examples. Also, there are messages in this list that point to instructions. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
