On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:30:51 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote: >Can Lilo boot a software RAID Root? > Yes, LILO can do that. GRUB now has limited support for raid but it sucks
>I don't believe any of them can. > >This is a HW RAID, provided by a HighPoint RocketRAID card. > Sorry, but AFAIK the only hardware raid ide controllers are the ones made by 3ware. I have several controllers (Promise and HPT) and none are real hardware raid. And the drivers suck, ie: one disk fail, the server is out. No fault tolerance at all :) I've tried the ataraid driver and soft raid. With softraid, I'd been able to remove an HD while the server was on (don't try this at home, kids! You may damage you hardware! ;)) and the server continued working without a hicup. Try that with ataraid and you'll get an insta-panic :) Again, my suggestion is soft RAID1 + LILO. I have 3 servers using this setup without problems. Bye! >Thanks. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Federico Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:56 AM >Subject: Re: GRUB and ATA RAID > > >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:42:56 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote: >> >> >Anyone have any experience with the above? I am having problems where >after installing Grub on a bootable ATA RAID array (this particular array is >a mirrored pair) I get the Grub level 2 boot and then the Grub "shell". If >I type in: >> >root (hd0,0) >> >kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 >> > >> >everything boots fine.... WTFO? >> >> Are you using "hardware" RAID or Linux soft RAID??? >> >> Anyway, my suggestion would be: use software RAID + LILO. Forget about >> GRUB. It's RAID support sucks :) >> >> Bye! >> Federico Voges >> Socio gerente >> >> Intrasoft Tel/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 >> Malabia 2137 14 A e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (C1425EZC) Buenos Aires Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar >> Argentina >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Federico Voges Socio gerente Intrasoft Tel/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 Malabia 2137 14 A e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C1425EZC) Buenos Aires Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar Argentina _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
