Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-30 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 04:32:17AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: If raid is buildin into the kernel and all the disk drivers for the raid too then the type 0xFD causes the kernel to already detect and start the raid. So you need no initrd and no mdadm to boot. So in your case you DO need

SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64) (was: Re: install-mbr on amd64?)

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via SSH. I use the md tools (mdadm) and lilo

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The whole procedure was done remotely via SSH. I

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Michal Schmidt
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot $ cd / $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Fun, fun. A copy of /proc. That's a few Gig wasted

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
Michal Schmidt wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot $ cd / $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Fun, fun. A copy of /proc. That's a

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Kilian
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access to the machine. The whole procedure

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michal Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. Copy the existing Debian system to the new RAID $ mkdir -p /mnt/newroot $ mount /dev/md0 /mnt/newroot $ cd / $ find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot Fun, fun. A

Re: SOLVED: Software-RAID1 on sarge (AMD64)

2006-05-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the last few days, I was struggling to convert a remote machine with two identical SATA disks (sda and sdb) to a Software RAID 1. Especially the boot-part was tricky as I had no console access