Ok, this is very annoying. I was converting a server to RAID-1. The drives are SATA and use the siimage driver. They are hda and hdc.
I had a nice Woody system up and running on hda. I created /dev/md0 with hdc, and a missing drive. I did a cp -ax to copy everything on hda to md0. All I needed was to get the boot loader sorted. I put boot=/dev/md0 and root=/dev/md0 in lilo.conf, and changed fstab to mount / on md0. Lilo came back with some errors. Unfortunately I don't have them to hand, but it was something like the boot map not being on the root device (this is vague, sorry). So I tried lilo -M /dev/hda and then /dev/hdc. This is where it goes a bit fuzzy. On reboot, I only got the dreaded LI. I unplugged hda, and hdc came up with lots of 01 (or something) repeated. I need to install lilo properly. I noticed that the latest d-i contains 2.4.25, which has the siimage driver, so I gave it a crack. I could nip into the shell and mount the disks, but I could not for the life of me get lilo to work. I'd settle for just getting it back on /dev/hda, and then actually trying to get the booting RAID set up without shagging it all up again. I tried lilo -r /mnt, but it said that -r was an unrecognised option. (I have another box booting off RAID-1, and it doesn't need the raid-extra-boot line.) Any ideas or help would be more appreciated than you might believe. A PS d-b folks, please CC me as I'm not subbed. PPS I couldn't build a lilo floppy as this box is floppyless. PPPS Was this problem caused by trying to install lilo on a running system with / mounted to hda not md0? Put another way, would it work if I booted from lilo on hda, mounted / as md0, _then_ ran lilo on md0? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]