RE: root raid problems

1999-09-18 Thread Bruno Prior
an [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 September 1999 18:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruno Prior > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: root raid problems > > > hello, > > i was probably unclear in my previous post. i had not been able to make > any raid devices (/dev/m

Re: root raid problems (fwd)

1999-09-17 Thread Jonathan Nathan
Leandro et al, THANKS!! normally i don't type in caps, but this was so amazingly helpful that i can't help it. i followed your instructions nearly step for step and i now have Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md3 : active raid1 sda7[1] sdb7[0] 530048 blo

RE: root raid problems (fwd)

1999-09-17 Thread Jonathan Nathan
[oops, sent to vgers.rutgers.edu - resending..] hello, i was probably unclear in my previous post. i had not been able to make any raid devices (/dev/md0 was not actually created). i modified the raidtab as was suggested, removing the raid-disk 1 line and just leaving the failed-disk 1 . i

RE: root raid problems

1999-09-17 Thread Bruno Prior
> the biggest problem, i think, is that i can't get the system to boot off a > hard disk at all. during the (redhat 6.0) install i said to put lilo on > the mbr (/dev/sda). this didn't really work - when i bring the machine > up, it says something to the effect of "can't find operating system -

root raid problems

1999-09-16 Thread Jonathan Nathan
hello, i'm trying to set up root raid on a new system. it's an adaptec aaa-131u2 (which linux doesn't like for hardware-based raid) with two 9gb disks. the biggest problem, i think, is that i can't get the system to boot off a hard disk at all. during the (redhat 6.0) install i said to put lil