Please take a look at my patches which fix this at
http://www.elliott-turbo.com/lilo
Rich B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Junjiro Okajima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 12:23 AM
Subject: lilo.raid1 and lilo-0.21-1.1.patch
>
> Hello, all.
> I am not a member of this ML, so please CC to me when you reply.
>
> There are lilo.raid1 patch and lilo-0.21-1.1.patch in lilo-0.21 RPM
> and I have a few questions about raid and lilo, is there anyone who
> wrote lilo.raid1 patch?
>
> o environment
> - linux 2.2.x after 2.2.10
> - raid0145-19990724-2.2.10.bz2
> - raidtools-0.90
>
> o Q about lilo.raid1.
> When I use raidhotadd/remove to begin mirroring, there becomes a
> strange entry in the md superblock on the disks.
>
> ioctl(GET_ARRAY_INFO) tells nr_disks is 3 but 2 in reality.
> ioctl(GET_DISK_INFO) tells one of them is device 00:00, both major and
> minor is 0.
>
> It might be a bug of a raid patch but lilo dies when he meets a
> unexistence device and when the first divice is 00:00 lilo can do
> nothing. So I suggest that lilo ignores such a device.
> The souce code will be such like this, based on lilo.raid1 patch,
>
> skip = pass = do_md_install = query = version = uninstall = validate =
0;
> ;;;
> while((pass == 0)||(do_md_install && ((skip+pass) <
md_array_info.nr_disks))) {
> if(do_md_install) {
> ;;;
> md_disk_info.number = pass;
> if (ioctl(md_fd,GET_DISK_INFO,&md_disk_info) < 0)
> die("main: GET_DISK_INFO: %s", strerror(errno));
> device = (md_disk_info.major << 8) | md_disk_info.minor;
> if (!device) {
> skip++;
> continue;
> }
> disk_fd = dev_open(&dev,device,O_NOACCESS);
> ;;;
>
>
> o Q about lilo-0.21-1.1.patch
> I case of LARGE_EBDA, the arguments passed to kernel will be cut at
> #CL_LENGTH, e.g. 78 bytes. Why it is so short? What is there at
> 0x8000+79?
> (I know this is not a raid matter, but if you know the answer please
> tell me)
>
>
> Thank you.
> Junjiro Okajima
