Hi all, I went ahead and set up OpenFiler 1.1.1 on an old Pentium III with two 250GB PATA hard drives (one master, one slave), and, with the OpenFiler installer, created 4 RAID-1 devices using the two drives as follows:
md0: /boot [100 MB] md1: / [4096 MB] md2: swap [2048 MB] md3: LVM [rest of space] I installed "Everything", created a volume group at the command line, configured everything else with the web interface, and was up and running with a public read/write Samba share. To test the RAID-1 configuration, I then shut down, disconnected the slave drive, booted up, and the master HDD continued to operate fine. I then disconnected the master HDD, changed the jumper on the slave to master and re-connected that drive (leaving the original master disconnected), and tried booting the machine. Unfortunately, I didn't get to the grub loader. The drive does seem to churn (in a good-sounding way), but all I get is a blinking cursor; the bootloader, even after minutes, never comes up. My understanding, based on reading over the Software-RAID HOWTO (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html) is that, per section 7.3, I *should* at least get as far as the bootloader, at which point I can tell it to boot from what was once the second drive in the array. But, again, just a blinking prompt. (Using fdisk, I did confirm that the first partitions on /dev/hda and /dev/hdb are flagged as "bootable".) Am I going about "recovering" from a failure (albeit simulated) in the wrong way for software-based RAID-1? Many thanks. Yours, David _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
