hi ya drbob
On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: > I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda > on-board ide), what exaactly did you type BEFORE you removed the bad disk ?? raidhotadd, raidhotremove, etc, etc.. is required ( aka good idea ) > So I went into the bios and set it to boot off the > promise card first. some bios cannot boot off of additional ide cards ( pci cards ) and mixing with onboard ide might be confusing the system > LILO version 22.6.1 too old ... you should be using lilo-22.7.1 for raid stuff if you want a working bootable raid system > lba32 > boot=/dev/md1 > raid-extra-boot=/dev/hda,/dev/hde why do you use "extra-boot" ?? - try commenting that line out > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.24.raidserver1 > label=RAID > read-only > root=/dev/md3 this implies /dev/md1 is your /boot ?? and that your rootfs ( /bin, /etc, /sbin .. ) is in /dev/md3 ?? for more debugging ... what is the contents of /etc/fstab what is the contents of /etc/mdadm.conf what is the output of "cat /proc/mdstat" > Is it safe to just put the disk with a valid mbr (hde) onto the on-board > controller? yes and no .. depends on the mb and bios and your lilo config options c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]