Greetings,
Need help doing it the hard way now that I've done it the easy way.
I still haven't gotten a bootable system trying to follow
Jakob �stergaard or Michael Robinton's HOWTOs. Not to fault
either of them, I'm still two months new to installing a RAID system.
I've been able to create RAID devices during installation of RH6.2
using RAID1 and to make the system bootable using RH6.2's GUI install,
but why make things easy on one self.
;-)
Here's what I've done:
1 - w/ the gui I setup non-raid swap partitions on both drives (per
recommendations of the different HOWTOs), along with the seven raid partitions I
originally planned. One or two hiccups with the GUI, but it came together.
One thing which I noticed when using the gui is that it forces you to use
extended partitions. It places one partition (the /boot or the root, I can't
remember) on the primary and all the rest are placed in the extended partition.
The problem with the extended partition is that if you delete one, say the
middle in a sequence of three, it lists the remaining two as adjacent.
E.g. you setup /dev/hda5, /dev/hda6, and /dev/hda7 on the extended partition,
then if you delete /dev/hda6, the remaining partions will be labelled /dev/hda5
and /dev/hda6.
Not too big of a deal, but these two issues forfeit some of the control
which I'd like to have.
I did test it in degraded mode; powering down, unplugging one drive, booting up;
powering down again, plugging in the power, unplugging the other, booting up.
In both cases, the machine came up w/o any problems.
Ok,
2 - Given that it does work and produces lilo.conf files and you can make a boot
diskette I figured I could study those and try again to setup the full RAID1
using the text mode and the Boot+Root etc HOWTO trying a few different variants
to that HOWTO's step 4.5.
So I tried ....
.... and I came two inches closer.
Rather than making a bootdisk per step 4.5 of the Boot+Root etc HOWTO I just
used the mkbootdisk command setting it up so that there was a RAM disk setup on
the floppy. I went in and made the lilo.conf look just like the one which was
made when setting up the RAID with the GUI and running lilo, making sure that
boot=/dev/md0. Here are the two
inches of progress, in terms of the last four or five lines of output to the
screen:
################
... Autorun Done
VFS: Mounted root (ext2) filesystem
change_root
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory, 64K freed
Kernel panic! No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
#################
If it finds Init then I'm home.
Any help in this regard would be appreciated.
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Max Pyziur BRAMA - Gateway Ukraine
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