At 16:26 06.04.00, you wrote:
> > raid will boot quite nicely from a standard lilo if the config file is
> > properly set up. I have several raid1 and raid5 (with raid one boot
> > partions) running that use standard lilo on both scsi and ide systems.
Query: is /boot on a raid device that was created in degraed mode (using
"failed-disk")? If so, you've got a problem:
a) there's a bug in mkraid that resultis in a "phantom" disk if creating
arrays in degraded mode and
b) there's an incongruity in the raidcode on how to count the number of
disks in the array, which makes it impossible to query the raid status of
the last disk in an array if there is a failed disk.
c) there's a bunch of bugs in the lilo - raidpatch that prevents it from
working on arrays with failed disks; the phantom disk from bug a)
unfortunately qualifies.
I've got patches for a) (fix mkraid diskcount if creating in degraded mode)
and c) (make lilo handle failed disks correctly).
b) requires a bit more thought and I don't want to do this without feedback
from mingo - unfortunately I haven't gotten any reply whatsoever from him
so far; tried several times.
Bye, martin
>See, but I didn't change lilos and I only removed unused boot targets and
>I'm almost certain I didn't change the working boot target (except for
>it's name). And my lilo is from red hat so it should have the boot from
>md patches anyway, right?
>
> > I'm at home at the moment so I will have to post a complete answer with
> > examples config files + explainations tomorrow. Please be patient and
> > I will get you the info.
>
>Wonderful, thank you! I'm certainly in no hurry right now :). I won't
>even need to invoke my patience, I would have sat on hold longer then that
>to get an answer about any proprietary software ;)
>
>Best,
>Sean
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