On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 09:22:56 +0800, Stephen R. Darragh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you rebooting after creating the partition table on hdd? If not, > try that. Besides that, what partitioning program are you using?
Yes. I made those partitions during the instalation and reboot many times before I configured RAID. I'm using fdisk > Beware the 0th cylinder. For compatibility with some boot loaders (not > sure about Openboot), your first partition should start in the second > track of the disk (e.g. the 64th sector, number 63 counting from zero, > if the disk has 63 sectors per track). fdisk and cfdisk will get this > right by themselves because they assume DOS compatibility, but sfdisk > will instead default to using the second sector of the disk (because > LILO, etc. are happy with this). My first partition starts at the 0th cylinder and 0th sector. > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 13:19 -0200, Eduardo Gonçalves wrote: > > Hi people, > > > > I'm still trying to set up a system with a mirrored root partition > > (including /boot). My set up is like that: > > > > hda, a 20GB disk > > hda1 -> 19GB, to use as raid-disk 0 > > hda2 -> a temp and misc partition > > hda4 -> swap > > > > hdd, a 40GB disk > > hdd1 -> 19GB, as raid-disk 1 > > hdd2 -> 21GB to mount /var and /home (maybe I use lvm here, but that's > > not the problem) > > > > The problem I have is when I issue a mkraid. The mirror works fine, > > but I lost the partition table of hdd and it becames identical hda's > > table > > > > I've heard something about to start the first partition at cylinder 1, > > not 0, but when a try this, openboot can't boot the system anymore. It > > can't find the image. > > > > My raidtab is like that: > > raiddev /dev/md0 > > raid-level 1 > > nr-raid-disks 2 > > nr-spare-disks 0 > > persistent-superblock 1 > > device /dev/hda1 > > raid-disk 0 > > device /dev/hdd1 > > raid-disk 1 > > > > Could anyone help? > > > > thanks in advance > > -- > > Eduardo Gonçvalves > > > -- > Stephen Darragh > Technical Director > Informed Technology > Ph: +61 8 9380 4244 Fax: +61 8 9380 4354 > >
