RE: lilo issue

2000-08-11 Thread Nick Kay
> >Can you show us your lilo.conf? Do you have a default label set? Does >lilo-21.5 include RH's boot from RAID1 patch, or another boot from RAID1 >patch? No I don't have the default label set - I tend to like having the option of alternate kernels as a rescue mechanism. I guess I don't hav

lilo issue

2000-08-11 Thread Nick Kay
Hi all, I have my raid-1 up and running over two 9gig scsi drives under slackware 7.1 with kernel 2.2.16+raid-2.2.6-AO from Ingo and lilo-21.5. After disconnecting the second drive (ID 1) and rebooting works fine, however pulling ID0 causes problems in that lilo comes up without an

Re: How do I tell the kernel I want RAID-5?

2000-08-11 Thread Nick Kay
At 09:12 11/08/00 -0400, you wrote: >This is going to sound pretty stupid, but here goes anyway... > >I got 2.2.16 and the latest patch from kernel.org, applied it and started to >rebuild. > >The question is, where do I tell the kernel to use RAID-5? > >I can't see it in the 'make menuconfig' stuf

Re: 2.4.0 autodetect patch FIXED (was: OK I'm stuck)

2000-07-25 Thread Nick Kay
The patch fixes the 2.4.0 kernel autodetect problem. Thanks to Olli and Martin Bene for supplying it and Kenneth Johansson for writing it. regards nick

2.4.0 autodetect patch

2000-07-25 Thread Nick Kay
Hi All, I'm told there is a patch by Kenneth Johansson that allows 2.4.0 kernels to detect raid partitions within an extended partition and it was posted to this list a few weeks ago. Could someone send me the patch as I was not on this list before last week. Better still would be a pointe

OK I'm stuck - resort to list-members.

2000-07-24 Thread Nick Kay
Hi All, I've got a problem with my software raid-1 setup that I hope one of you kind people can help with. I have a slackware7.0 setup with an ide drive (for installation) and a pair of 9gig scsi drives on an adaptec 2930 that will be used for the raid. I can get the raid up by hand ok b