On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Stefan Goerres wrote:
> Hello Raid friends....
>
> well after some trouble connecting to the list I hope that this mail
> reaches you. I have some trouble I nee help about .... but let me
> describe in detail:
>
> I patched a 2.2.18 kernel with the latest IDE and RAID stuff I had
> found. Compiled a latest set of utils and made a SuSE 7.0 standard
> bootdisk. I changed the kernel to the one I made and could boot off
> this disk a raid aware kernel. I needed to pass some kernel parameters
> for my hde and hdg disk to be detected correctly but than it worked
> fine. So I put partitions on the disk and made a 50MB RAID1 and a
> nearly 150GB RAID0 device out of my IBM 75GB disks. Additionally I
> have to small swap partitions. After changing the partition type to
> "fd", rebooting and formatting the /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 I was ably to
> install a full SuSE Distro on the md0 device. Now my problems
> start.... the /dev/md1 I have mounted to /boot .... I tried to
> configure LILO like it is described in "Boot + Root + Raid + Lilo :
> Software Raid HOWTO" but I can't get it working. Even the booting with
> the SuSE install disk and starting of the /dev/md0 device does not
> work. LILO reports device 0x102 can not be found and does nothing ....
> So how Can I start fixing this??? What informations do u gurus out
> there need to help me a little bit with my trouble.....
>
I had a similar problem with SuSE 7.0. I cant remember what lilo version
SuSE uses, but it does not know about raid. Try using lilo version 21.5,
21.6 did not work for me.
Holger
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