On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> This could be cute. But, how to do it? Is it even possible?
>
> > You forget your option of having a small bootable partition
> > on each of the
> > drives composing the raid array, which is how it's done. Or
> > used to be,
> > before the lilo.raid1 patch was produced to let us boot off a raided
> > partition.
It in fact was the standard way of doing Root RAID1. Just create a /boot
partition on both drives with identical copies of the kernel and lilo's
assorted files. Create a lilo header on both disks that mounts /dev/md0
(or whatever your root-raid partition is) as root. Take care because in my
experience lilo doesn't write headers to disks other than the first one
properly - switch primary disks for the install. Test and you're set.
It seems the lilo.raid1 patch that's reportedly shipped with RH6.1 maked
the need for a separate /boot partition unnecessary, since it will boot
the kernel off your root-raid partition.
k
