> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jane Dawson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems booting from RAID
>
> Hi,
>
> I decided to set up a completely RAID-based system using two
> identical IDE
> hard disks, each with 3 partitions (boot, swap and data).
Be careful about swap on RAID. There are lots of details in the archives,
but SWAP on RAID during reconstruction is a really bad thing, so don't let
it happen.
> But I am having appalling problems in getting the machine to boot from
> RAID! I've been through the Software-RAID-HOWTO so many times
> I can almost
> recite it, but still things aren't going as they should.
>
> Does anyone have any pointers as to where I'm going wrong? At
> the moment,
> all six paritions are set in 'cfdisk' to type 'fd'. What
> should I put in
> lilo.conf, etc. ?
Probably need to patch lilo, and then have a look at the LDP document on the
subject.
http://www.LinuxDoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html
This one looked good, but I haven't dug into it very much, as RH works
wonderfully to install onto RAID.
Greg
