The solution is so simple after I got the RH 6.1 CDROM with new graphical
installer. I did finish it in so easy way. Thank you for your helps.
George
Kelina wrote:
> Dunno what all the fuzz is about... But i'm running 2 raid1 arrays. One
> 16mb /dev/md0
> for boot, and one 15gb /dev/md1 as root. If u go into rh6.1's graphic
> install u can choose
> if u want an ext2 or a raid device. Go ahead and try it out. Worked
> perfectly here, just
> 2day i janked out the primary ide controller (when the system was off
> obviously) and it
> neatly booted up in degraded mode. I reconnected the cable and did a
> raidhotadd -a and
> everything reconstructed. All is fine again.
>
> Surge
>
> At 15:14 1-3-00 +0100, Thomas Rottler wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I've another idea to run a RAID 1 '/' partition:
> >(I assume that CONFIG_AUTODETECT_RAID is available.)
> >
> >Recently I found out that you can access the individual real devices of a RAID
> >array (if it's not active). This way I could tell the kernel to mount my RAID
> >1 device as rootdir ("root=/dev/md*"). And for LILO (re)installation, I had to
> >mount the real device read-only somewhere and instruct LILO to read the kernel
> >from there. This way LILO would see something like /dev/sda3 as boot partition
> >and the kernel would mount the RAID array as root.
> >
> >What do you think about this???
> >I'll try it as soon as I can... :-)
> >
> > Thomas
