> 1) I removed power to the one drive for a while to verify > operation. I restored power and rebooted but it's not > reconstructing the array. Is there a way to force this ? use the tool 'raidhotadd' > Any ideas ?? I noticed a "--force-resync" option in mkraid but it's not > documented in the man page. wouldn't use that. > > 2) The redhat rc.sysinit script trys to fsck the root partition twice, > the second time when it's mounted. I have no idea why it does this > for a /dev/md0 root and not a regular partition. > i assume you mean rh 5.2 if so, go in and remove all the lines from /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt that talk about raid. just remove them all. make sure you compile raid modules directly into the kernel first. > 3) I created seperate /boot partitions to contain System.map and vmlinuz. > The are not mounted by default. I also copied the files to /boot on the > root partition but I still get tons of "/boot/System.map is not parsable as ..." > messages when I start and shutdown. > erase everything from /boot on your root disk, and mount your real /boot there instead. that is the entire point of moving the kernel into /boot, so it can be a sep. partition. i do this on 6 boxes, works great, no complaints (other than the silly RH module_info file :) > 4) Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why to identical drives would > come up with different geometries. I think the BIOS is setting hda in > tranlation mode, and leaving hdc alone. Is there any way to force linux > to overide the BIOS and use the real geometries on both? stupid bios/linux kernel problem. happens all the time with award bios and drives larger than 8.4 gigs. if you specify on your lilo command line, or in a lilo append statement: hda=16383,16,63;hdc=16383,16,63 i use this on two machines with a pair of 8.4 gig disks in each. the three items are cyl, heads, and sectors. the numbers i give are the 8.4 gig bios maximum, and is what most drives of this size report. this will get linux kernel to report disks have same geometry. enjoy. allan > > TIA > Doug >
