Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-16 Thread drbob
Alvin Oga wrote: what exaactly did you type BEFORE you removed the bad disk ?? raidhotadd, raidhotremove, etc, etc.. is required ( aka good idea ) I use mdadm to manage my array. The command was mdadm --set-faulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 --remove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 (repeated for the other

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-16 Thread drbob
drbob wrote: I'll post here if the changes I suggest above have any effect. regards, drbob Before I did this I tried a few different settings in lilo.conf and had some success :-). Setting raid-extra-boot=mbr-only avoided the error I was seeing previously: :/etc# lilo -v LILO version

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-16 Thread drbob
, if such a boot record is desired, this is one way to have it written. Use of mbr is the other way to force writing to the MBR of device 0x80. regards, drbob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
to be a simple way around the issue but I'm not sure if this would break the array in some other way. Any help solving this would be much appreciated. regards, drbob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Mike Bird wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 09:59, drbob wrote: I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), however the system then hung on reboot, this was because hda, being blank, had no MBR. The second disk (hde) is plugged

Re: LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
since I set the array up a year ago so I had been hoping things would just work oh well :-) I'll post here if the changes I suggest above have any effect. regards, drbob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TUN device for VPN - File descriptor in bad state

2005-11-25 Thread drbob
drbob wrote: Hello, I'm trying to implement an opevpn server on my debian box. The first step was to recompile my kernel (2.4.32) with TUN?TAP support built in. I did this and created the /dev/net/tun device however it does not work. cat /dev/net/tun returns: cat: /dev/net/tun: File

TUN device for VPN - File descriptor in bad state

2005-11-22 Thread drbob
the only suggestion there is to link /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm to the current kernel source directory, afaik this is not the debian way and I don't know what else I'd break if I did this. Is there a better way to solve the problem? regards, drbob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL