Hi,
I am tearing my hair out over this stuff (I should have mentioned that I am
completely new to not only RAID but Linux in general). This is the first
task I have been given in my new job - talk about being thrown in at the
deep end! :)
I've written to many lists for help with this and received various
conflicting advice and suggestions (many thanks to those who have written
back so far!) So, I've decided the best plan of action is to start again
from scratch with blank hard disks, a new reinstallation and to copy the
setup as described in Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo HOWTO - however I don't
understand how to create a /boot partition as well as a root partition.
I would be eternally grateful if somebody could explain the logic behind
this as well as how to do it :)
Thanks in advance from a poor, confused and befuddled newbie,
Janie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gregory Leblanc
> Sent: 07 August 2000 15:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Problems booting from RAID
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jane Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:13 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Problems booting from RAID
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I decided to set up a completely RAID-based system using two
> > identical IDE
> > hard disks, each with 3 partitions (boot, swap and data).
>
> Be careful about swap on RAID. There are lots of details in the archives,
> but SWAP on RAID during reconstruction is a really bad thing, so don't let
> it happen.
>
> > But I am having appalling problems in getting the machine to boot from
> > RAID! I've been through the Software-RAID-HOWTO so many times
> > I can almost
> > recite it, but still things aren't going as they should.
> >
> > Does anyone have any pointers as to where I'm going wrong? At
> > the moment,
> > all six paritions are set in 'cfdisk' to type 'fd'. What
> > should I put in
> > lilo.conf, etc. ?
>
> Probably need to patch lilo, and then have a look at the LDP
> document on the
> subject.
> http://www.LinuxDoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html
>
> This one looked good, but I haven't dug into it very much, as RH works
> wonderfully to install onto RAID.
> Greg
>
