I just solved my problem. This is what I posted to the RH-list
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Michael Ghens wrote:
>
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:25:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Michael Ghens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: RH6.2 & RAID
>
> Well, I can answer my own question.
>
> I am runing a dell 1300 with a builtin adaptec scsi card with 3 9-gig
> hard drives
>
> All partitions are running raid5 accept for /boot partition which is raid1
>
>
> What I did was downdoad the latest lilo from metalabs.unc.edu
> (lilo-21.4.3) and installed it. It supports RAID1 partitions.
>
> In my lilo conf, I made 2 changes
>
> I change the boot= command from boot=/dev/sda to boot=/dev/md0 (my /boot
> RAID1 partition). This will put a lilo block on all drive associated with
> /dev/md0
>
> Also, I change the linear command to lba32. I had to do this because I go
> partition bigger than 1024 sector warnings.
>
> Happy in Santa Barbara, running software RAID!!!
>
> Michael
>
> ----
>
> The answer to the meaning of life:
> perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10); '
>
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Michael Ghens wrote:
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> > Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 01:15:49 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Michael Ghens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RH6.2 & RAID
> > Resent-Date: 8 May 2000 08:15:59 -0000
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> > >From the RH docs, it gives the impression to do Software boot raid.
> > However, the /boot partition has to be RAID1. The rest can be RAID5. I
> > have a dell 1300 with 3 9-gig HD. I can get raid to boot only with the
> > boot floppy.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > TIA
> > Michael
> >
> >
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The answer to the meaning of life:
perl -e 'print$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10); '
On Mon, 8 May 2000, Matthew Opoka wrote:
> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 13:00:36 -0500
> From: Matthew Opoka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Michael Ghens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Raid-Boot
>
> I'm in the same boat. Having problems.
>
> Matthew
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Ghens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:09 PM
> Subject: Raid-Boot
>
>
> > 2 questions
> >
> > The address of the archives for this list.
> >
> > Any advice on getting a RH6.2 to boot from rain. Lilo coughs. From what I
> > have read, it should be very possible as long as the boot partition is
> > raid1. This is currently proving untrue.
> >
> > TIA
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
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