"Barry L. Kline" wrote: > You have a couple of choices here. > > If hda dies, you can boot on hdc if your BIOS supports it. If not (and > you have loaded the boot loader on hdc as well as hda) then move the > hdc drive to the primary channel and boot from it. A better solution, > however, is to prepare for the inevitable before it arrives. > > Make a bootable diskette: mkbootdisk --verbose --mkinitrdargs > '--preload raid1' $(uname -r) so that you can boot from floppy and > access your RAID array. When a drive dies, you only need install the > new drive and boot from floppy, fdisk the new drive and make the > appropriate partitions (marked as type fd), then raidhotadd the > partitions back into your mirror set. When you're up-and-running you > can then use LILO or GRUB to make the new drive bootable. >
I hate replying to myself, but I skipped a step. Once you've fdisked the drive, you'll need to mkfs.ext3 on each appropriate /dev/md? (or whatever filesystem you're using), and if you're swapping to a raid partition, then mkswap /dev/md? too. Then you can run the raidhotadd... Barry -- Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
