Maybe you two could work together and make a RaidRoot-HOWTO that covers both lilo
and grub??
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Mark Ferrell : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andy Poling wrote:
> On 23 Aug 1999, Harald Nordg�rd-Hansen wrote:
> > James Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > How come I've been running this for about a year and a half, then?
> > >
> > > I believe he's talking about not having to do *any* non-raid partitions
> > > (ie your /boot I believe, reading your lilo.conf)
> > > (...)
> > >
> > > Please enlighten if I missed the point in his, or your, posts.
> >
> > As I said, /boot resides inside my / raid0 set. There is no need to
> > have non-raid disks when booting with lilo, all you have to do is tell
> > lilo how to access the underlying data from your raid-set, i.e. the
> > translation from /dev/md0 to /dev/sda1 in my case. And using the disk
> > parameter of lilo, this is a fairly straight-forward task.
>
> I wish I'd seen that explained alot sooner... it might have saved me alot of
> trouble, because I certainly _tried_ to figure out how to get lilo to work
> that way. I think "straightforward" might be an optimistic description of
> the difficulty level. :-)
>
> > So again, using lilo and very little magic, there is absolutely no
> > need for a separate partition for /boot.
>
> I'm still going to stick with grub because it only needs to be installed once
> and then works forever, and it requires no "magic" after that - it just works.
>
> Several folks recommended that I write up a mini-howto on grub booting RAID
> 1, and that's what I'm going to do.
>
> Harald, it might help if you did the same thing for lilo booting RAID 1...
> and then folks can figure out how to use either method.
>
> -Andy
