[ Wednesday, November 17, 1999 ] Kelina wrote:
> Right, so now i'm confused, why couldn't i install rh6.1 over rh6.0 (kernel
> 2.2.13 raid0 patch0.90).
> It simply wouldn't detect my raidarray correctly...
The only thing I can think of is that you were using initscripts to start
your raid arrays
[ Wednesday, November 17, 1999 ] Kelina wrote:
> Okay, so lemme get this right, rh6.0 has new-style but not version 0.90?
new-style raid *is* version 0.90 :)
old == 0.42, 0.50
new == 0.90
James
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Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development
Thanks to everyone that responded. I've learned a lot. Let me say what
I know now and where I still have questions.
(1) 'how to boot,' I'll experiment with some of everyone's ideas tomorrow.
Again, though, my system has a SCSI disk which is booted from; there is
one big RAID-1 filesystem on t
[ Wednesday, November 17, 1999 ] Kelina wrote:
> Ermm... do you mean a newer version than the old version that autostops
> devices? Or the actual brand-newest spanking raid code which can also
> be found as a patch in ftp.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
> where xx denotes a country co
Kelina wrote:
> Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the standard rh6.0 (and 6.1 kernel for
> that matter) use old style raid?
If you mean the version that uses the older tools (i.e. mdadd, mdrun, etc) then
no. I have 6.0 on a box running a RAID-5 array and one of the last messages
during a shu
[ Wednesday, November 17, 1999 ] Kelina wrote:
> Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the standard rh6.0 (and 6.1 kernel for
> that matter) use old style raid?
Consider yourself corrected :) Considering Ingo's email addr (well,
among others) is mingo@redhat and how thoroughly they got tested
in
> > As a comment: the docs should
> > probably emphasize the importance of shutting down the RAID by hand if
> > your system doesn't do it automatically, and RH 6.0 doesn't.
>
>Using new-style RAID, the kernel handles stopping the RAID at shutdown. You
>should not be stopping the RAID yourself b
Stephen,
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:05:19 -0800 (PST), Stephen Walton wrote:
>Well I'm a new convert to software RAID on Linux. The system I'm
>presently using is a P-150 with Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller, single SCSI
>hard disk which is the boot drive, and a new pair of Western Digital
>Caviar 20.
Hello Stephen.
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Stephen Walton wrote:
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-22
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda7
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-22.img
> read-only
>
> to write the boot reco
> My problems: first of all, I'm open to suggestions on how to boot this
> system now. I tried a suggest LILO setup:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-22
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda7
> initrd=/boot/initr
> Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't the standard rh6.0 (and 6.1 kernel for
> that matter) use old style raid?
Like James says, I believe you are mistaken. As far as I know, RH 6.* uses
new-style RAID.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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