btw. Could you provide /etc/lilo.conf examples of soft-raid booting? Thanks! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Federico Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 12:46 AM Subject: Re: GRUB and ATA RAID
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:30:51 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > >Can Lilo boot a software RAID Root? > > > Yes, LILO can do that. GRUB now has limited support for raid but it > sucks > > >I don't believe any of them can. > > > >This is a HW RAID, provided by a HighPoint RocketRAID card. > > > Sorry, but AFAIK the only hardware raid ide controllers are the ones > made by 3ware. > > I have several controllers (Promise and HPT) and none are real hardware > raid. And the drivers suck, ie: one disk fail, the server is out. No > fault tolerance at all :) > > I've tried the ataraid driver and soft raid. With softraid, I'd been > able to remove an HD while the server was on (don't try this at home, > kids! You may damage you hardware! ;)) and the server continued working > without a hicup. Try that with ataraid and you'll get an insta-panic :) > > Again, my suggestion is soft RAID1 + LILO. I have 3 servers using this > setup without problems. > > Bye! > > >Thanks. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Federico Voges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:56 AM > >Subject: Re: GRUB and ATA RAID > > > > > >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:42:56 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > >> > >> >Anyone have any experience with the above? I am having problems where > >after installing Grub on a bootable ATA RAID array (this particular array is > >a mirrored pair) I get the Grub level 2 boot and then the Grub "shell". If > >I type in: > >> >root (hd0,0) > >> >kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 > >> > > >> >everything boots fine.... WTFO? > >> > >> Are you using "hardware" RAID or Linux soft RAID??? > >> > >> Anyway, my suggestion would be: use software RAID + LILO. Forget about > >> GRUB. It's RAID support sucks :) > >> > >> Bye! > >> Federico Voges > >> Socio gerente > >> > >> Intrasoft Tel/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 > >> Malabia 2137 14 A e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> (C1425EZC) Buenos Aires Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar > >> Argentina > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Linux-users mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > >http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Linux-users mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > Federico Voges > Socio gerente > > Intrasoft Tel/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 > Malabia 2137 14 A e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (C1425EZC) Buenos Aires Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar > Argentina > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
