The boot hanging at "LI" seems to be a "feature" of the LILO which shipped
with RedHat 6.2.
The simple workaround for it is to add a "default=" line to your lilo.conf
file.
I haven't heard of more recent versions of lilo having this problem, but
have not tried any of them myself (or later RH versions).
-----Original Message-----
From: Giulio Orsero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 1:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: booting off raid1 /dev/mdX, lilo problems
System details at the end of the email.
PROBLEM:
I understand the latest lilo should allow to boot off a raid device, however
I'm
having trouble doing so. Booting with the complete mirror is ok, booting
with
the first disk (hda) is ok, booting with just the 2nd (hdc) stops at LI.
When doing tests I power off, and disconnect the IDE cable and reboot.
BIOS is all to auto.
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SYSTEM DETAILS:
RedHat6.x system with 2.2.19 kernel (from RH + some minor patches not
related to
raid, so with 0.90 raid).
== /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0] 819392 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0] 205568 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 hdc4[1] hda4[0] 177344 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
== lilo version
LILO version 21.4-4
== lilo.conf
boot = /dev/md0
message = /boot/message
lba32
timeout = 200
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux
root = /dev/md0
read-only
== output of lilo -v (no * for the hdc "linux")
LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman
boot = /dev/hda, map = /boot/map.0302
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Mapping message file /boot/message
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Added linux *
/boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
boot = /dev/hdc, map = /boot/map.1602
Reading boot sector from /dev/hdc
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Mapping message file /boot/message
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Added linux
/boot/boot.1600 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
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