Re: RAID Root

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Figured out my problem.  Stupidity on my part.  I wasn't seperating /boot
out from / which was required... duh!  Don't know how I missed that in the
Doc's.  That url you provided me comes with the .90 raidtools.

Later.

Jason



On Wed, Apr 21, 1999 at 02:51:38PM -0700, Aaron D. Turner wrote:
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> Did ya find this howto?  Very informative.  All the other RAID docs I've
> seen are "bad".
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>  http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
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> Basically you need a /boot partition to hold the kernel images.  Vodka
> actually has two so that it can boot off either disk should one fail.  
> If you want to see how I did it, look at:
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> /etc/lilo.conf
> /etc/lilo.conf.sdb
> /etc/raidtab
> /boot
> /boot2
> 
> on Vodka.
> 
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> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
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> > Mainly directed at Aaron but any suggestions welcome:
> > 
> > I'm trying to set up raid-1 root on a system here at work.  I've got 2.2.6
> > in place with the latest matching raid0145 patches, V0.90 of the
> > raidtools, detection of the raid devices at boot time is working fine...
> > but when I try to run lilo with a root=/dev/md0 or root=900 it comes back
> > and says: "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900".  Anyone
> > encounter this before?  Aaron?  If so please help :).  I'm giviung up on
> > it for the day... but I gotta get this box up... *sigh*  and I don't want
> > to forgo redundancy on my / partition.  :(
> > 
> > Thanks guys...
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
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