Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
Russell Coker wrote: raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb According to the documentation of lilo, this shouldn't be necessary, but apparently either the funcionality or the docs are buggy. Without that line I couldn't boot at all from the second disk, the way I've tested it also

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 14:15, Fraser Campbell wrote: the way I've tested it also works with install-mbr /dev/md1 Why would you want to use install-mbr on a RAID device? I use install-mbr for the MBR on the hard drive (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb in this case) and then have it load the

linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Russell Coker
I've written a document on using Linux software RAID with hot-swap SCSI hardware. It's slightly specific to the hardware I use (I wrote it for internal use) but can easily be adapted to be more generic. If someone wants to add it to a HOWTO or something then be my guest, please give me

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Russell == Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I've written a document on using Linux software RAID with hot-swap SCSI hardware. nice doc, just a little comment about booting: *Booting* To make a RAID-1 device bootable you first have to use fdisk to set

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Andraz Sraka
re On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:42, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Instead of install-mbr, I used the following line in lilo.conf: raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb According to the documentation of lilo, this shouldn't be necessary, but apparently either the funcionality or the docs are buggy.

Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware

2003-01-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 01:25, Andraz Sraka wrote: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:42, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Instead of install-mbr, I used the following line in lilo.conf: raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb According to the documentation of lilo, this shouldn't be necessary, but apparently