> > lilo.conf
> > ---
> > disk=/dev/md0
> > # fdisk of hda
> > bios=0x80
> > sectors=63
> > heads=16
> > cylinders=39770
> > partition=/dev/md1
> > # from fdisk -ul -- starts at block 408
> ^ you probably mean cylinder :)
> > start=410256
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> >
"Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> lilo.conf
> ---
> disk=/dev/md0
> # fdisk of hda
> bios=0x80
> sectors=63
> heads=16
> cylinders=39770
> partition=/dev/md1
> # from fdisk -ul -- starts at block 408
^ you probably mean cylinder :)
>
Martin Bene wrote:
> You CAN make lilo boot off raid1, you just have to supply all the
> info it normaly gets from getgeometry() in the config file.
Just to reiterate (again)
*OR* you can use the lilo.raid1 patch included in the SRPM of lilo
in RH 6.1
James
--
Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM N
Michael wrote and now answers his own question
Went back to Harald's original e-mail on the subject and
re-configured the partitions - it appears to all work now.
In the example below, the first raid partition does not begin at the
physical disk start, changing that allows lilo to recognize the
Martin Bene wrote:
> let me repeat
> something I learned from Harald Nordgard-Hansen
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Thanks!!):
>
> You CAN make lilo boot off raid1, you just have to supply all the
> info it normaly gets from getgeometry() in the config file.
>
This is what I have
/ /dev/md
At 19:54 20.09.99 +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
>none of the above can point to a file residing on a md device, if it does
>lilo gives the device not known error.
Since it still doesn't seem to be common knowledge, let me repeat something
I learned from Harald Nordgård-Hansen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (
What i realise now is that the lilo.conf file cant make any reference at all
to ANY files on a md device.
install=
map=
image=
none of the above can point to a file residing on a md device, if it does
lilo gives the device not known error.
I probably should have realised this before now, but th
Thanks for the advice people.
I now have a 64MB boot/emergency partition that ive actually put a mini
debian distribution on, so i can copy my linux boot files into there and
update lilo from there.
I was trying to set boot=/dev/md0 which i realise now doesnt work (thanks
for pointing that one o