Raid autorun problem

2000-04-05 Thread David Bradford
I'm running Red Hat 6.1 and I'm getting the following stuff on bootup when it tries to autodetect my software raid setup: autodetecting RAID arrays (read) sdb1's sb offset: 8788864 [events: 0002] (read) sdc1's sb offset: 8788864 [events: 0002] (read) sdd1's sb offset: 8788864

Re: Raid autorun problem

2000-04-05 Thread Piete Brooks
I'm running Red Hat 6.1 and I'm getting the following stuff on bootup when it tries to autodetect my software raid setup: Do you have an initrd which pre-loads raid5 ? kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k md-personality-4, errno = 2 What is wrong? It needs `md-personality-4' to

Re: Current raid driver for 2.3.42?

2000-04-05 Thread Thomas Stegbauer
right now i downloaded 2.3.99pre3 but under /blockdevices/multipledevices i get only linear and raid0, but now ^ what should that be? Kernel source? I have linear.c and raid{0,1,5}.c in /usr/src/Linux/2/3/99/pre3/drivers/block. thanx 4 the answer. oh sorry,

Re: Raid autorun problem

2000-04-05 Thread David Bradford
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Piete Brooks wrote: It needs `md-personality-4' to process the array. It does not have it (no initrd ?) so it tries to load it. At this point, I suspect you do not have a FS so can't do the above :-( Got it - thank you. There was an initrd but it did not include raid5. I

Re: Current raid driver for 2.3.42?

2000-04-05 Thread Marc Mutz
Thomas Stegbauer wrote: right now i downloaded 2.3.99pre3 but under /blockdevices/multipledevices i get only linear and raid0, but now ^ what should that be? Kernel source? I have linear.c and raid{0,1,5}.c in /usr/src/Linux/2/3/99/pre3/drivers/block.

RAID-1 Non-destructive mirroring

2000-04-05 Thread belman
Is there any sign of RAID-1 that's non-destructive? This is making my life living hell right now. :) I haven't been keeping up, so if there is a 2.2 patch or perhaps something in 2.3 that supports it, I would be most gracious (perhaps a method that isn't described in the

Re: RAID-1 Non-destructive mirroring

2000-04-05 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any sign of RAID-1 that's non-destructive? This is making my life living hell right now. :) RAID-1 with persistent superblocks will require the last few KB of your disk for the superblock. But besides from that, it

LILO error with a raid-1 /

2000-04-05 Thread Sean Millichamp
First of all, let me say that I followed the recently posted instructions to this list on how to take an active drive and mirror it without having to backup and then restore the data. It worked flawlessly! Thanks to everyone who contributed information. After that, I modified LILO to mount the