On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:50, Devlin Daley wrote: > With both drives everything runs great, the interface feels pretty > snappy as well. I thought that I would test my setup, so I shut down > the machine, unplugged the secondary master and booted. Everything > fine, ran just fine off of the one drive. (at least I think, I never > got a disk unavailable or any type of error) Shutdown, plugged the > secondary back in, booted, everything fine again (do I need to > "re-establish" the raid array when I plug the hard drive back in?) > Shutdown then removed the primary master and tried booting off the > secondary, and it will not boot. (I did try all the combinations of > putting it on the other controller as well) I booted with knoppix and > all the data is there, there is even a partition on it with grub and > it's configuration files, I assume this was supposed to be the /boot.
You need to tell the array to rebuild the second drive. Look at the Software RAID HOWTO: < > I read an unexplained claim on a howto that grub doesn't install itself > on the mbr of each disk in an array, but that lilo does, not sure if > that has something to do with my problem or not. The idea that lilo does is ridiculous, but yes this is your problem. Install grub to the second disks MBR as well and you should be okay. > > > Am I going about this the right way? Well, I would have tried harder _not_ to mirror swap. If the OS can cope with it you may want to see if you can stripe swap instead. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
