I have been playing with a software raid 1, and have discovered I guess I don't know how PCs boot...
Say I have one disk on /dev/hda and another on /dev/hdc. What happens if the disk on /dev/hda dies? (I simulated this by playing with another distribution on /dev/hda.) I can't get the disk on /dev/hdc to boot anymore. Using the Knoppix disc as a rescue CD (wonderful disk!) I can mount my /etc as an ext2 (or was it 3?). I pulled out the raidtab and unmounted /etc again. Then I did a raidstart with my raidtab, once for each of my md's. I then did a serious of regular mounts to turn the md's into regular volumes. Cool. I now have my entire raid 1 world mounted as a non-redundant raid array, all under Knoppix. I now try to run lilo (the version on my disk) to put a master boot record on the /dev/hdc disk and can't do it. OK, so I tried running the newer lilo that comes on the Knoppix CD. It lets me specify what disk to install on, but it still won't boot. Dang! How do BIOSes boot? Thanks, -kb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
