Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-25 Thread Hardware Stuff
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 06:22:25 -0400 From: Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hardware Stuff wrote: Grub can read from any normal FAT,

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-24 Thread Dave Cinege
Hardware Stuff wrote: Grub can read from any normal FAT, ext2, or BSD, FS. This would include a raid1 drive (which was what was mentioned). Otherwise the proper way to do root raid is with a small ext2 partition (8MB) that is speced on the initrd line. (IE initrd=/dev/sda1)

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-23 Thread Hardware Stuff
Date:Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:20:08 -0400 From: Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Jakma wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dave Cinege wrote: Lilo (aka absolute sector offset) is the old, dumb, way to boot. Use grub. http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-20 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, 17 Apr 1999 16:22:59 -0400 (EDT), "m. allan noah" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: have you ACTUALLY used grub to boot off of raid1? i dont see how grub is capable. it would have to be able to read the md device. prove me wrong please. raid-1 has the property that the raid superblock is

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-19 Thread Osma Ahvenlampi
Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if the current Linux RAID1 leaves a normal superblock in logical sector 0 of a RAID1 partition or not. (It should. If it doesn't it's yet another reason I won't use Linux software RAID. : P) Yes, it does. The RAID superblock will be placed at

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-17 Thread Michael
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Joe Beauchamp wrote: With some good advice from readers, I was able to get raid going. I wanted to try the "booting with lilo" thing, but lilo doesn't like device 900. Has someone really been able to put everything on raid except /boot? How so, if so? -- thanks! --

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-17 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dave Cinege wrote: Lilo (aka absolute sector offset) is the old, dumb, way to boot. Use grub. http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/ Premade grub disk is here: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/linux/ a bootloader that can read a kernel from a linux raid device would be really

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-17 Thread Dave Cinege
Paul Jakma wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Dave Cinege wrote: Lilo (aka absolute sector offset) is the old, dumb, way to boot. Use grub. http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/ Premade grub disk is here: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/linux/ a bootloader that can read a kernel from a linux raid

So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-16 Thread Joe Beauchamp
With some good advice from readers, I was able to get raid going. I wanted to try the "booting with lilo" thing, but lilo doesn't like device 900. Has someone really been able to put everything on raid except /boot? How so, if so? -- thanks! -- Joe B. ;-)

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-16 Thread m. allan noah
once on accident i got a lilo config to install a kernel on one half of a raid 1 device. it was cause i had lilo configured, made the array, copied using dd, and the kernel ended up in the same place on the disk, so lilo still worked. there seems to be no way to get this to work intentionally.

Re: So, it's up -- and I'm beating it, now about that boot..

1999-04-16 Thread Dave Cinege
"m. allan noah" wrote: once on accident i got a lilo config to install a kernel on one half of a Lilo (aka absolute sector offset) is the old, dumb, way to boot. Use grub. http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub/ Premade grub disk is here: ftp://ftp.psychosis.com/linux/ --