Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

[Piete Brooks]

> If I do a lilo with boot=/dev/md0 in my lilo.conf it does write to both
> disks. But booting from the second disk in the array is not possible.
> I always get "error: 0x80" or similar right after the LILO prompt.
> Any hints?

I find that `default=linux' (or whatever the actual default is)
and running `sync' a few times before rebooting tends to help.

But yes -- it is very ropey :-(