Re: FW: Can not Install LILO on the MBR

[Mukaila olundegun]

Thanks, I am reading the LILO-HOWTO for further configuration. But excluding the system devices(/, /usr, /boot) from RAID configuration seems to solve the problem. Regards, Mukaila ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennings, Richard R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:29 AM Subject: RE: FW: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > Thanks, > The howto you mention covers software RAID. I seem to remember > reading that only RAID 1 is bootable (and maybe only s/w RAID). > I'm running hardware RAID 5. Maybe the howto will help > Mukaila. It sounded like he was using RAID using on motherboard > controllers. Sorry about the incorrect blanket statement about > not being able to boot from RAID. Apparently, you can with > the right combination. > Cheers, > Rich > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 12:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FW: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > > > > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO.html > > section 3 > > > > > > "Jennings, Richard R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@fsmlabs.com on > 02/14/2001 07:15:25 AM > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > > Subject: FW: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > > > Oops, > Forgot to CC the rtlinux list. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jennings, Richard R > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 7:13 AM > To: 'Mukaila olundegun' > Subject: RE: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > > > Hi Mukaila, > Sorry to bring you the bad news, but you cannot boot from a RAID array. > We have a six disk array and had to configure one OUT of the array to > boot RH 6.2. The other method is use a boot floppy (quite slow) or > another disk that will show up BEFORE the RAID array. We tried > using another disk to boot from but we could not get disk to show > up BEFORE the RAID controller. We have the Adaptec 2940UW > and Megaraid RAID controller combination. > > If I'm wrong here, someone please correct me. I would be happy > to be able to boot from our RAID array. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Rich > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Richard R. Jennings > Embedded Software Engineer - The Boeing Company > Flight Simulation Technology / Advanced Avionics Center - St. Louis > Computational & Image Generation Group > (314)234-0460 FAX (314)232-7972 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mukaila olundegun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:25 PM > To: RTLinux mailing list > Subject: Can not Install LILO on the MBR > > > Hello Everyone, > > > On my box I have the following spec. > > 2* 81GByte HDD (configured for RAID1 mirroring) > 1 DVD (IDE) > 1 CDROM > 2*800MHzPENTIUM III CPU (Linux detect both and built linux.smp and > linux-up) > Motherboard RIOWORKS has onboard RAID controller but not used. > Linux Distribution RedHart ver 6.2 > Disk partition: Root(/) Boot(/boot) home(/home)..etc. All with Raid1 > configuration except swap disk. > > My problem is I can not install LILO on the MBR. It turns gray and can not > be selected during insation. When I restart I have only "LI" display and > the > system stops. > > My question is, is there a limit for the HDD (81GB) that is preventing the > installation? Or have I missed something somewhere? > > I made a boot disk (floppy disk) which I am using currently. I have no > problem with the boot disk nor the system itself. > > Any help will be appreciated > > Mukaila > > >