I left a non-RAID boot partition on each drive, as grub can't boot from RAID partitions. I've heard that lilo can, but I've never tried it. I manually (well, in FAI scripts) mirrored the /boot partition from one disk to the other, then used grub to write boot sectors on both disks.
Did you use partition type fd? -Bruce. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aur�lien G�teau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:19 AM > To: linux-fai > Subject: LILO + Raid1 + Root filesystem > > > Hello! > > We are in the process of adding software Raid1 support to our > FAI process. > Right now we successfully partitionned and formatted the hard > disks, then > installed software on them, but we can't make the system > boot. Our lilo.conf > uses boot=/dev/md0 and root=/dev/md0. If we use the option: > raid-extra-boot="/dev/hda3,/dev/hdb3" > > Lilo fails to install. If we use: > raid-extra-boot="/dev/hda,/dev/hdb" > > Lilo installs successfully, but on reboot fsck complains that there's > something wrong with the superblock and mount the root system > read-only. > > I saw on the mailing list archives that some of us have > successfully added > Raid1 support to your FAI setup, how did you make the system boot? > > Regards, > Aur�lien > > > > >
