Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-14 Thread James Manning
> > It's 552 lines, so I'll go ahead and attach it here with the warning > > that it is the 4th patch (of 4) to get applied in their .spec file (after > > .include, .ebda and .cpqarray) and as such may not apply cleanly... it's > > only got 8 chunks in it though, only the 3rd and 8th of which have

Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-14 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
I believe that's the source rpm for lilo. Where is the patch available. This is the second lilo raid patch I have seen and they're different. alex On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, James Manning wrote: > >%_[ Thursday, October 14, 1999 ] Brian Lew wrote: > > Can you direct me to where I can get this lilo.r

Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-14 Thread James Manning
[ Thursday, October 14, 1999 ] Brian Lew wrote: > Can you direct me to where I can get this lilo.raid1 patch? ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/redhat-6.1/SRPMS/SRPMS/lilo-0.21-10.src.rpm It's 552 lines, so I'll go ahead and attach it here with the warning that it is the 4th patch (of 4) to get app

Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-14 Thread Brian Lew
Can you direct me to where I can get this lilo.raid1 patch? Thanks, Brian - Original Message - From: James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux-Raid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 9:34 AM Subject: Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-14 Thread James Manning
[ Thursday, October 14, 1999 ] Bruno Prior wrote: > > My Problem: > > First i tried to use root=/boot-hda1 in lilo.conf.hda below. But this > > doesn't work. I got the following error from lilo: [snip] Since it seems (to me at least) to be The Right Way To Do It(tm), has anyone used the RH 6.1 l

RE: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-14 Thread Bruno Prior
> My Problem: > First i tried to use root=/boot-hda1 in lilo.conf.hda below. But this > doesn't work. I got the following error from lilo: > Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0906 > ... but /boot-hda1 was mounted to /dev/hda1 which is a nonraid ext2 > partition. > o.k. but when i mount /dev

Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-13 Thread James Manning
[ Monday, September 13, 1999 ] christophe leroy wrote: > What you must do is remove /dev/hda, then write your lilo record. I don't believe that's the case. from looking at "man lilo.conf", you can pass bios=0x80 in the disk=/dev/hdc stanza to let lilo know that when you're booting hdc it'll be s

Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-13 Thread christophe leroy
This is because when you write your boot record on /dev/hdc, /dev/hda is there so your /dev/hdc is seen as bios disk 0x81, but when you boot without /dev/hda, it is bios disk 0x80, so lilo which try and load from 0x81 fails. What you must do is remove /dev/hda, then write your lilo record. Chris

Lilo and booting with failed first disk

1999-10-13 Thread Markus Hofmann
Hello! I set up a raid-1-system with root-raid. I created boot-partitions (normal non-raid ext2 partitions) not included in the raid. One on /dev/hda1 and the other /dev/hdc1. hdc1 is thought for the situation if hda1 fails. My copy my lilo.conf, raidtab and my lilo-install-script below this mail