Does anyone know of other root-raid howtos? For example,
for those of us who have only a basic understanding of linux
booting and ramdisks?!
I spent the morning looking at the Root-RAID-HOWTO [1]
and have come to the conclusion that doing a root-raid is
seriously non-trivial unless you have a clear understanding
of and/or experience with ramdisks. The real bottom line
is that I don't know what lilo config to use.
If anyone understands the Root-RAID-HOWTO and has time to look
at the enclosed bash-speak, lemme know you what you think.
later,
steve
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Steve Rader
Systems and Network Manager
WiscNet--Internetworking for Wisconsin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
608-265-6761
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[1] ftp://ftp.bizsystems.com/pub/raid/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html
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# /dev/sda1 has / with rh5.0 and a 2.0.36 kernel + md + raid1
# /dev/md0 is a raid1 raid on /dev/sdb1
cd /root
mkdir raidboot
cd raidboot
mkdir mnt mnt2
dd if=/dev/zero of=build bs=1024k count=36
losetup /dev/loop0 build
mke2fs -v -m0 -L initrd /dev/loop0
mount /dev/loop0 /root/raidboot/mnt
# insert RedHat 5.0 cdrom #1
mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/live
tar -cf - bin boot dev etc lib root sbin tmp var | \
(cd /root/raidboot/mnt; tar -xvf -)
cd /usr/local/src/raidtools-0.42
./configure --sbindir=/root/raidboot/mnt/sbin \
--prefix=/root/raidboot/mnt/usr
make
mkdir -p /root/raidboot/mnt/usr/man/man8
make install
cd /root/raidboot/mnt/sbin
ln -sf mdadd mdrun
ln -sf mdadd mdstop
cp -a /dev/md* /root/raidboot/mnt/dev
cd /root/raidboot
dd if=/dev/zero of=bare.fs bs=1024k count=36
losetup /dev/loop1 bare.fs
mke2fs -v -m0 -L initrd /dev/loop1
mount /dev/loop1 mnt2
cp -a mnt/* mnt2
umount mnt
umount mnt2
losetup -d /dev/loop0
losetup -d /dev/loop1
cp bare.fs rescue
gzip -9 bare.fs
losetup /dev/loop0 rescue
mount /dev/loop0 mnt
gzip -9 rescue
cp rescue.gz /mnt
cp rescue.gz /
cd /root/raidboot/mnt
cp /usr/local/src/tar-files/linuxrc .
chmod 775 linuxrc
vi /root/raidboot/mnt/raidboot.conf
vi /root/raidboot/mnt/etc/raidboot.conf
vi /etc/lilo.conf???
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