Re: lilo + raid + kernel-2.4.x failure to boot

2001-04-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 16 April 2001 06:47, Linas Vepstas wrote: > I am running kernel-2.4.x. Two ide hard drives, with partitions 1,5,6,7,8 > in use. The partitions on the two drives are mirrored using RAID-1 to > create /dev/md1, /dev/md5, /dev/md6, etc. The root fs is on /dev/md1. What partitions are us

Re: lilo + raid + kernel-2.4.x failure to boot

2001-04-16 Thread Andreas Dilger
Linas Vepstas writes: > BTW, I noticed that oddly, every time I ran lilo, and then ran > lilo -q -v -v, it reported different sector numbers for the kernel > images. This freaked me out at first, but I came to accept it as normal: > doesn't affect bootability. But is this really w.a.d? (I was as

lilo + raid + kernel-2.4.x failure to boot

2001-04-15 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, another zinger that I am sending to LKML because I don't know where else to send it ... I've discovered a deadly combination of kernel & lilo (and raid). This may be a pure lilo bug, but I assume that the kernel+raid aids & abets the problem...: I am running kernel-2.4.x. Two ide hard d