I have kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm.
I have lilo 21.4-3
I have /etc/raidtab =
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda1
failed-disk 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda5
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb5
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md2
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda6
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb6
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md3
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda7
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb7
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md4
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda8
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb8
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md5
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda9
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb9
raid-disk 1
I have the following mounts =
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 127902 40987 80311 34% /
/dev/md1 10079980 37028 9530908 0% /home
/dev/md2 4032448 416788 3410816 11% /usr
/dev/md4 254699 14 241533 0% /tmp
/dev/md5 254699 6766 234781 3% /var
/dev/md3 2016656 1992 1912220 0% /usr/local
/dev/md0 127790 40988 80204 34% /stage
/proc/mdstat =
Personalities : [raid1]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] 131968 blocks [2/1] [_U]
md3 : active raid1 sdb7[1] sda7[0] 2048896 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 sdb5[1] sda5[0] 10240896 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 sdb6[1] sda6[0] 4096896 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md4 : active raid1 sdb8[1] sda8[0] 263040 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md5 : active raid1 sdb9[1] sda9[0] 263040 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
/stage/etc/lilo.conf =
boot = /dev/md0
delay = 5
vga = normal
root = /dev/md0
image = /boot/bzImage
label = linux
when I run lilo I get the following:
[root@otherweb /root]# lilo -r /stage
boot = /dev/sdb, map = /boot/map.0811
Added bzImage *
Syntax error near line 2 in file /etc/lilo.conf
raid1 is in the kernel and /stage is a copy of / fs.
Even with a /stage/etc/lilo.conf =
boot=/dev/md0
image=/boot/bzImage
label=linux
root=/dev/md0
I get the same error message.
The idea is to boot the new md0 root partition in degraded mode and
then raidhotadd the sda1 partition which is currently root to the
md0 device.
Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Is there a better way?
Hugh.