At 09:07 26/10/99 -0600, Marcos Lopez wrote:
>Egon Eckert wrote:
> >
> > > syslogd 378 root 5w REG 9,1 8548 192396
> > > /var/log/boot.log
> > > klogd 389 root 2r REG 8,1 191102 12
> > > /boot/System.map-2.2.12-20
> > >
> > > Is it safe to kill these?
> >
> > These are loggers, so I guess nothing terrible would happen. But I
> > wouldn't kill them anyway.. I would fix the problem, not make it worse.
> >
> > > Also i would be quite grateful if someone could explain to me why I must
> > > unmount /boot inorder for the lilo -r /mnt/newroot to work?
> >
> > I don't unmount anything before running lilo.
>
>Okay tired performing that function without doing the umount. I tried
>doing it without coping the files in /boot over to /mnt/newroot/boot but
>it couldn't find /boot/boot.b. So i copied over all the files in /boot
>to /mnt/newroot/boot. Then after running "lilo -r /mnt/newroot" I get
>the following error:
>"Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900"
>
>What does the above mean and how to i fix it?
Okay bear with me here... i'm doing this from memory and some of my own
configs (if u have the time to search the
archives, u'll find something abt this in august i think)
my lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/hda
bios = 0x80
sectors = 63
heads = 128
cylinders = 779
partition = /dev/hda1
start = 63
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/bzImage
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/md0
append="ether=0,0,0,0,eth1"
Note the disk paragraph, My setup is hda1 as boot-disk (32mb) and the rest
of my 2 hd's as raid0. Why
exactly this is needed, i don't know. But without it, i also got the 0x0900
from lilo. The sectors, heads
and cylinder's line are taken directly from fdisk -l /dev/hda. The start as
far as i remember, is the same
as the sector, since it's on the beginning of the disk. (correct me if i'm
wrong) And the partition is the
boot partition obviously. The reasons for why this is neccesary u have to
ask some of the greater linux-
god's around here, but this worked for me. Also, i think this comes up
often enough to be added to the
Software-Raid-HOWTO (i don't remember seeing it there). Anyone agree on this??
Surge
>I also have a extra small /boot partition but I just have the regular
>stuff that is in /boot in there. Should I put some more stuff in
>there. My end goal is to have a system that boots off RAID if i can
>figure it out, but right now i need to get this machine into out
>environment and i would really like to have Root on RAID before letting
>it get hammered. I think i am close just have to figure out this lilo
>thing.
