On Wed, 10 May 2000, Dave Meythaler wrote:
> I was doing some testing earlier this week on RedHat 6.2 (2.2.14-5
> recompiled w/o raid modules) using /boot RAID-1 (two disks, hda and hdc) and
> saw what sounds like the same problem discussed here.
>
> With hda unplugged, I would get 0x80 errors in lilo and was unable to boot
> except by floppy.
>
> I found that adding a "default = xxxxx" line to lilo.conf seemed to fix the
> problem. Apparently letting lilo fall through to the first entry doesn't
> properly write/generate the boot file on both disks.
Presto! Works for me, too. What's more, with sda removed, pressing
<tab> at the boot time lilo prompt now lists the labels from
lilo.conf.
Thanks for the suggestion! I could probably learn something if I had
a look through the sources to see what the "default" entry triggers.
- C
