Re: boot redundancy - writing lilo to each drive?

[Michael]

> > > get the latest lilo from metalab, it understands raid
> > 
> > But it does not really work.
> > 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.
> 
> I get the same error; it actually accesses my floppy drive and I
> have no idea why. Are your drives IDE drives with more than 10 gigs?
> 

So do it with regular LILO, it works fine and allows for differing 
disk geometrys

See the Boot+Root+Raid+LILO howto at the Linux Documentation Project 
(metalab)