> thanks to the online version of the Software-RAID HowTo (the one that
> comes with the raidtools 0.90 is hopelessly out of date), I was able
> to build a system totally running on RAID1 volumes.
If you have the up-to-date raidtools, you have a (near enough) up-to-date HOWTO.
I bet you just looked at the HOWTO in the raidtools directory. Did you look in
the Software-RAID.HOWTO directory? This used to be confusing when the old HOWTO
was in the main directory, but with later raidtools, the old HOWTO has now been
tucked away under olddocs/.
> Although lilo.raid accepts my lilo.conf and shows two parts of adding
> configs, only the first disk in the raid seems bootable.
> The only sign of failure I get is a line saying "open /tmp/dev.0: No
> suitable device found" after adding the configs to the boot record of
> the second disk.
I don't understand this part of your message. Are you trying to use the
"/boot=/dev/md?" line which was suggested in an earlier thread? I don't see how
this works. Going back to Dirk Lutzebaeck's problem with this, he used
"boot=/dev/md0". /dev/md0 is a mirror of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1. Why then does
lilo try to install to /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, not to /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1?
Maybe this is what RedHat suggest, but I would have thought it was more
transparent to specify where you want lilo to be installed with a
"boot=/dev/sda" line, and an alternative lilo.conf which uses "boot=/dev/sdb;
disk=/dev/sdb bios=0x80" to install lilo to the second disk. But then, I haven't
installed RH 6.1, so I'm not talking from experience.
Cheers,
Bruno Prior [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jochen Haeberle
> Sent: 18 November 1999 14:59
> To: Linux-raid
> Subject: Booting from raid1 - halfway only
>
>
> Hi,
>
> thanks to the online version of the Software-RAID HowTo (the one that
> comes with the raidtools 0.90 is hopelessly out of date), I was able
> to build a system totally running on RAID1 volumes.
>
> I have autodetection working, patched version of lilo that accepts
> boot=/dev/md0 and / mounted on /dev/md0.
>
> It works it runs fine and I am already able to disable one of the two
> disks, but if this is the wrong disk, problems start...
>
> Although lilo.raid accepts my lilo.conf and shows two parts of adding
> configs, only the first disk in the raid seems bootable.
> The only sign of failure I get is a line saying "open /tmp/dev.0: No
> suitable device found" after adding the configs to the boot record of
> the second disk.
>
> I am using the patched lilo version from RedHat 6.1 (the binary RPM,
> as the source could not be compiled due to lack of LaTex...) on a
> SuSE 6.2... could this be the problem??
>
> Jochen
>
>
