Hey all... this probably isnt a 100% raid question, but I'm hoping that
someone here has had a similar experience that might be able to help me.
I'm trying to turn a non-raid system (RedHat-6.1: no flames please, I've
heard them all already :) into a root-raid system.
If raid wasnt involved, and all I was trying to do is to copy a system
from one drive to another, these are the steps I'd take:
1. Power down system and attach new drive.
2. Power up in singler user mode.
3. fdisk, mke2fs and mkswap the new disk.
4. Mount the new partition onto the existing as /mnt or something
5. cp -axv / /mnt
6. Power down system.
7. Remove old disk, and set new disk to be the primary (IDE disks if you
havent guessed already)
8. Boot up from a floppy (tomsrtbt used to work for this, but not with the
new file system types... a redhat boot/resuce worked okay, here, but not
since 6.1 where there /isnt/ rescue disks that I can see).
9. Mount the new partition somewhere in the ramdisk (/mnt again). Edit
/mnt/etc/fstab appropriately
10. lilo -r /mnt
11. REboot
And... the new system is up an running. Unfortunately, if I'm trying to
copy to a raided destination, things dont work out so well. I get all
sorts of errors when I try to lilo. Oft things like /tmp/dev.0 not found,
and VFS errors when I try to boot into the raided system.
IF I install a raided system from scratch it works fine, but I cant see
what the new system does that I didnt do manually.
Has anyone tried what I've done with any success ?
("`-/")_.-'"``-._ Ch'marr, a.k.a.
. . `; -._ )-;-,_`) Chris Cogdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(v_,)' _ )`-.\ ``-'
_.- _..-_/ / ((.' FC1.3: FFH3cmA+>++C++D++H++M++P++R++T+++WZ++Sm++
((,.-' ((,/ fL RLCT acl+++d++e+f+++h++i++++jp-sm++
