Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-06-09 Thread Juri Haberland
Christian Robottom Reis wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000, Juri Haberland wrote: Luca Berra wrote: get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid But it does not really work. If I do a lilo with boot=/dev/md0 in my lilo.conf it does write to both disks. But booting from the

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-06-09 Thread Michael
get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid But it does not really work. If I do a lilo with boot=/dev/md0 in my lilo.conf it does write to both disks. But booting from the second disk in the array is not possible. I always get "error: 0x80" or similar right after the LILO

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-06-09 Thread phil
BTW- The 'lilo' and kernel with comes with the VA-Linux distro for their hardware (based on RH6.2) seems to have the current patches and worked flawlessly for me. Maybe you can grab the SRPM's for those? Phil On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:49:19AM -0800, Michael wrote: get the latest lilo

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive? - solved...sort of

2000-05-31 Thread Gavin Clark
on 5/30/00 6:52 PM, Michael wrote: this brings me back to my original post in this thread. I get an error when I try to specify the "real" device and the MBR does not get written. do I have to stop the raid for the boot partition and mount the partitions as individual sdx ? I would

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Luca Berra
get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid L. On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:22:29AM -0700, Gavin Clark wrote: Hi, I have a raid level 1 on 2 scsi drives and an IDE drive. I'm trying to set MBR on all my drives so if the first one goes down the system will still boot. -- Luca Berra

RE: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Jieming Wang
What is the version and can't tell me where exactly the URL? -Original Message- From: Luca Berra [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive? get the latest lilo from metalab

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Juri Haberland
Luca Berra wrote: get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid But it does not really work. If I do a lilo with boot=/dev/md0 in my lilo.conf it does write to both disks. But booting from the second disk in the array is not possible. I always get "error: 0x80" or similar right after

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Piete Brooks
If I do a lilo with boot=/dev/md0 in my lilo.conf it does write to both disks. But booting from the second disk in the array is not possible. I always get "error: 0x80" or similar right after the LILO prompt. Any hints? I find that `default=linux' (or whatever the actual default is) and

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Michael
Luca Berra wrote: get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid But it does not really work. If I do a lilo with boot=/dev/md0 in my lilo.conf it does write to both disks. But booting from the second disk in the array is not possible. I always get "error: 0x80" or similar

Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

2000-05-30 Thread Michael
this brings me back to my original post in this thread. I get an error when I try to specify the "real" device and the MBR does not get written. do I have to stop the raid for the boot partition and mount the partitions as individual sdx ? I would think that if I tell lilo to write the MBR