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 Alvin Oga
hi ya drbob On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: I use mdadm to manage my array. The command was mdadm --set-faulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 --remove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 i'd think there might be a short cut version, but i'm being lazy to go look it up - i'd set it faulty first, if the

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

2006-01-16 Thread drbob
Thanks for the advice, I managed to get the system booting off either disc without further swapping of the drives around though. I set raid-extra-boot=mbr-only in lilo.conf. This forces lilo to rewrite the mbr of each disc in the raid1 array and not to the first sector of the raid1 partition.

LILO with root-raid nightmare - please help.

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Hello, 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 into a promise ide card. So I went into the bios and set it to boot off the

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

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
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 into a promise ide card. So I went into

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 into a

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

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 10:40, drbob wrote: I'm pretty sure it did. Attached are the outputs from fdisk and mdstat. They look good. I'm beginning to think that either your partition table is corrupt or it's a non-DOS type that's too large to leave room for LILO. I can't find an fdisk option to

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

2006-01-15 Thread drbob
Mike Bird wrote: They look good. I'm beginning to think that either your partition table is corrupt or it's a non-DOS type that's too large to leave room for LILO. I can't find an fdisk option to ask for the partition table type. You could try parted /dev/hde print (etc) to verify that both

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

2006-01-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya drbob On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, drbob wrote: I've replaced a failed disk in my raid 1 setup. I replaced the disk (hda on-board ide), what exaactly did you type BEFORE you removed the bad disk ?? raidhotadd, raidhotremove, etc, etc.. is required ( aka good idea ) So I went into the