Hello, I've been searching this list for the answer but I got confused by all the different approaches. Besides, I don't have /boot on an md partition as most of you seem to have... I have a raid-1 setup with the 0.90 raid, for all partitions exept for /boot. There are several problems, one is that I can only boot from floppy, although I specified root=900 in lilo.conf. Shouldn't that work ? I get a "kernel panic: unable to mount root partition". ( the rootpartion is on /dev/md0 which consists of hda2 + hdc2 ) Stupidly enough, both the (working) floppy and the kernel on disk respond to 'rdev' with "Root device /dev/hda2", but only the floppy works... The second one is this: if drive hda fails, the machine won't boot from hdc, or will it ? How did you people fix this...? Finally, I have a question about duplicating this setup. I need to duplicate this machine to two others. I plan to do it like this: remove one of the disks, let it boot in degraded mode, shutdown, add a new drive, raidhotadd the new drive to the array (in place of the original), let it sync, and then remove the new drive again. Then I should be able to do that again in the second machine; boot the freshly mirrored one in there, and raidhotadd an empty one later. Any problems with this ? Will it work, or is my whole approach wrong ? Thank you for your time, Maarten ********* my lilo.conf file ************ boot = /dev/hda vga = normal read-only linear prompt timeout = 50 image = /boot/bzImage-2.2.16 label = server # root = /dev/hda2 root=900 ***************** end lilo.conf **************** -- Maarten J H van den Berg van Boetzelaer van Bemmel, informatie- en netwerktechnologie http://vbvb.nl T 020-4233288 F 020-4233468
