On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Marc A. Mnich wrote:
> I am using RedHat 5.2 (raid supported) and am having a hell of a time =
> getting a root partition to boot as raid 1.
>
> Does anyone have Linux working in a root mounted RAID configuration? =20
> What do the linuxrc and lilo.conf files need to look like?
>
> I am simply trying to set up mirroring on my root partition for High =
> Availability (as well as fault tolerance). I don't want my system to =
> lock if any one of the drives go out. I am trying to switch over my =
> production server from Windows NT to Linux (my NT is also running =
> software raid1 on the boot system). I can get the Linux raid set up no =
> problem (I am able to mount the raid and go through a shutdown and all =
> is well), but I can't figure out what to put into the linuxrc file to =
> get the partition to boot as root.
The way that I have done it is to use the autorun capability to start md0.
the raid partitions will autostart if they are set to "fd" instead of 82(81)
with this you can then set the root to /dev/md0. To do this you may have
to make a kernel that has the raid1 modules staticly linked.
I am working with Alpha's here so the booting process is a little
different but you should be able to get lilo to boot from either one of
the disks.
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