unexpected inconsitancy - suprerblock error

2000-06-04 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I'm testing out my raid by pulling the plug on one of the drives before rebooting and I get an error. when I plug the drive back in it boots just fine. I get this message: /dev/md5 unexpected inconsitancy /dev/md5: the filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 4480119 blocks the p

how should I set up swap?

2000-05-31 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, got raid working, got lilo all set up, now how should I set up swap in /etc/fstab? I have 2 scsi drives set up as a raid1- this has / and /boot and the rest of the system. I also have an IDE drive for storage and backup. all 3 drives have a partition set up to be swap Right now swap is o

Re: strange error with lilo: "open /tmp/dev.0: No such device"?

2000-05-31 Thread Gavin Clark
I'm right at the end of a similar process. check the owner and permissions of /tmp (and other directories) on your raid compare it to the original on the IDE drive. copying with graphical tools like KDE will screw up the ownership and things like suid. I had problems with that. If your copied wi

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive? - solved...sort of

2000-05-31 Thread Gavin Clark
on 5/30/00 6:52 PM, Michael wrote: >> this brings me back to my original post in this thread. I get an >> error when I try to specify the "real" device and the MBR does not >> get written. do I have to stop the raid for the boot partition and >> mount the partitions as individual sdx ? I w

boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Gavin Clark
Hi, I have a raid level 1 on 2 scsi drives and an IDE drive. I'm trying to set MBR on all my drives so if the first one goes down the system will still boot. I followed advice from this list's archive and set up a lilo.conf file for each drive: lilo.conf.hda lilo.conf.sda lilo.conf.sdb when I tr

Re: I need a aic7xxx example for /etc/conf.modules

2000-05-26 Thread Gavin Clark
n 2 > stage, with ramdisk and initrd, but *much more* complicated). > > HTH > > -TheAl > >> -Message d'origine- >> De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Gavin Clark >> Date: vendredi, 26. mai 2000 11:35 >> À: [EMA

I need a aic7xxx example for /etc/conf.modules

2000-05-26 Thread Gavin Clark
I can't get the module aic7xxx to mount at startup. could someone who has this working send me an example of thier /etc/conf.modules file I have tried: alias eth0 eepro100 alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq pre-install pcmcia_