On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Rob van der Heij wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Should I try to mount the actual partitions under boot sequentially? I am
> > new to RAID and am not sure how to proceed.
>
> If you want to make another disk "bootable" you must specify the right
> directory (and that must be on the target device). The reason is that
> zipl creates a "bootmap" in that directory. We used to put the
> zipl.conf in the /boot directory and point to that one in the command.
>
> Don't know whether the scheme with RAID and LVM maps well to Linux on
> z/VM. If you're just looking for an extra boot device, then you might
> want to share that with all the other Linux guests.
I think the problem is that my target device is /dev/md1 which is not a real
disk, it's a pseudo-device manufactured by the mdadm command from two real
partitions.
-Robin
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