Hendrik Boom: ... > > If you have /boot on a raid-mirror on all your disks (pref. as first > > partition) there is no problem making lilo work. Since then it > > doesn't matter which disk it is booting from, it will load the kernel > > and possible an initrd/initramfs if you want it to. > > Except that the raid-mirror has been missing for some time, and the > two copies of /boot are no longer the same. Reattaching it would > yield two very similar file systems and lilo will thus have a choice > between two different places to boot from. If the two copies of the > RAID were properly sync'd up you would be right -- there would be no > problem. ...
Boot with the disk with the newest version of /boot, connect/power up your disk with the older version of /boot, then add the old partition to your md-raid mirror. The "old" partition will be automatically updated. Didn't that work ? Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
