Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-31 Thread Peter Billson
Earlier in this thread, there was a question of how hardware RAID would handle the failure of a drive on reboot. While at LinuxWorld I asked the Intel team how their controller would handle it. The answer was that the card would note the disk failure, notify you of the problem, rebuild the ar

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-30 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell Thanks Russell, I used "--force-conflicts" and it installed. I should have thought of that myself. Now I must find a time to reboot the machine to test it. In the meantime I will leave the magic boot stiffy in the 'a' drive - just in case we get a 3AM power failure ! (All

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 04:06, I. Forbes wrote: > > > > > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > > > > > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? > > > > > > > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ > > > > > > Thanks very much. It almost looks like you p

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-30 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell On 31 Jan 2002, at 2:08, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:55, I. Forbes wrote: > > > > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > > > > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? > > > > > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:55, I. Forbes wrote: > > > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > > > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? > > > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ > > Thanks very much. It almost looks like you put this together in > re

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-30 Thread I. Forbes
Hello Russell On 30 Jan 2002, at 9:08, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:43, I. Forbes wrote: > > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? > > http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ Thanks very mu

Re: Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 22:43, I. Forbes wrote: > 1) has anybody got a 'deb' of the latest lilo, back-ported onto > potato. I am looking for one to use on my "stable" machines? http://www.coker.com.au/lilo/ > 2) has anybody written a nifty script which can be run by crond to > read /proc/

Raid 1 + lilo

2002-01-29 Thread I. Forbes
Hello All As a follow-up to the "closest to debian" thread. I am using software raid 1, + IDE drives. On a woody system with the latest lilo and a new bios it seems pretty good. The bios will boot off the 2nd drive if the first one fails. Both disks have an MBR and lilo is on both disks via