At 12:39 PM 5/6/2001 +0200, Giulio Orsero wrote:
> >), I now
> >write a slightly different boot loader to the MBR of each disk in the
> >array. This way the machine will come up off whichever physical disk is
> >...
> >- Write a boot loader to each disk, i.e., "lilo -C /etc/lilo-sda.conf",
> > "lilo -C /etc/lilo-sdb.conf", etc.
>
>Thanks, this way it works; now my mirror boots off hdc just fine.
>
>However, I had to do the lilo for hdc with hda disconnected.
>With hda connected lilo gave me a warning about "hdc not first disk" and
>at boot
>I got "LI".
>I tried adding to the hdc lilo.conf
>disk = /dev/hdc
>bios = 0x80
>this eliminated the warning, but still "LI".
>
>Did lilo work for you with both hda and hdc connected?
Giulio,
No, I didn't have to disconnect any drives when writing out the
different bootloaders, but I'm using SCSI drives, not IDE drives (I'm
assuming you're using IDE drives because your device names are
"hdX"). It's possible this is an issue for lilo when using IDE, but not SCSI.
-Al
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