Re: Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-24 Thread Thomas Scheuermann
Hi, > You are probably not using the "CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID" feature > whereby you mark the raid partitions with a special parition type > (0xfd) and then the raid arrays are automagically configured at boot > time. The raid1 module was missing in the booting kernel so the autodetection failed.

Re: Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-23 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday May 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I have some recovery problems with RAID1. > (raidtools 0.90) > I use Red Hat Linux 6.1 and I have two partitions mirrored (hda8 and hdc8). > If I loose the second part of the mirror I don't have any problems. >

Re: Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-23 Thread John Saunders
Hi On Tue, 23 May 2000, Piete Brooks wrote: > > When running LILO only /dev/hdb is updated. > > How come ? Wish I knew It all happened after I was testing to see what would happen under various failure conditions. I had three identical drives that I was experimenting with by removing and r

RE: Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-23 Thread Martin Munt
John Saunders [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 11:54 AM > To: Thomas Scheuermann > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Recovery problems with raid1 > > Hi > > I have a similar problem. > > /dev/md1 consists of /dev/hda5 and /dev/hdb5

Re: Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-23 Thread Thomas Scheuermann
Hi, Am Die, 23 Mai 2000 schrieben Sie: > Hi > > I have a similar problem. > > /dev/md1 consists of /dev/hda5 and /dev/hdb5 > > When running LILO only /dev/hdb is updated. > > Should /dev/hdb fail, I cannot boot from /dev/hda and get a message that > no valid boot disk was found. > > I hav

Re: Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-23 Thread John Saunders
add'd the drive. After array resonstruction I ran LILO again with the same result. Anyone have any ideas ?. Regards John On Tue, 23 May 2000, Thomas Scheuermann wrote: > Hello, > > I have some recovery problems with RAID1. > (raidtools 0.90) > I use Red Hat Linux 6.1

Recovery problems with raid1

2000-05-23 Thread Thomas Scheuermann
Hello, I have some recovery problems with RAID1. (raidtools 0.90) I use Red Hat Linux 6.1 and I have two partitions mirrored (hda8 and hdc8). If I loose the second part of the mirror I don't have any problems. I can recreate the RAID1 with raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hdc8. But if I loose the