Hi
I'm trying to establish a software raid1 after installing linux
(redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14) in the first drive. I went to a certain extent
but could not succeed completely.
Here is what I am doing..
1) Install linux in /dev/sda ( boot partition /dev/sda1, root partition
/dev/sda5, swap /dev/sda6)
2) fdisk the second drive (/dev/sdb) with the same size partitions as
/dev/sda but converted the type to 0xfd
3) Create /etc/raidtab using failed_disk for /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5..
raiddev /dev/md0
.
.
device
/dev/sdb5
raid-disk 0
device
/dev/sda5
failed-disk 1
reiddev /dev/md1
.
.
device
/dev/sdb1
raid-disk 0
device
/dev/sda1
failed-disk 1
4) mkraid /dev/md0
mkraid /dev/md1
I checked the devices in /proc/mdstat and they looked fine
5) mount /dev/md0 /mnt ; mount /dev/md1 /mnt/boot
6) cp directories from / to /mnt except (proc,mnt)
7) cd /mnt/etc; changed the fstab..
/dev/md0 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/md1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1
8) umount /mnt/boot; umount /mnt; raidstop /dev/md0 ; raidstop /dev/md1
Everything went on fine till now. Then I tried to boot from a floppy with
root=/dev/md0
But the kernel panicked...
I would be very grateful if anyone could help me out with this..
Thank you very much
--rezwanul
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