Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-23 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 21:16 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: I tried the following (3 x HDD): In partman, set up the three disks to have identical partition tables: * A small primary partition with boot flag set. * A large logical partition. * A small logical partition.

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-23 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 07:00:47PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 21:16 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: I tried the following (3 x HDD): In partman, set up the three disks to have identical partition tables: * A small primary partition with boot flag set.

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-09 Thread Dan Peachey
On Friday 08 October 2004 13:28, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Has anyone tried the following workaround: /boot on RAID1 with N physical partitions /root, /usr, /var, etc. on LVM, with LVM on either RAID1 or RAID5? That would mean /root on RAID5 would be possible, by using a small portion of the

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-09 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 13:08 +0100, Dan Peachey wrote: I can confirm that this works. I have 2 x HDD and in partman I setup a small partition and large partition on each, identical in size, and marked them for RAID. Then create 2 RAID devices for each drive/partition, the small RAID device

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-08 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
08.10.2004 12:43 +0100 Dan Peachey (-): Hi there, I've had a go at installing a system using the pre-rc2 netinst image. With the install I have 2 x HDD which I have setup a software RAID for in partman (/dev/md/0). I have then fired up a console and used pvcreate and vgcreate to create

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-08 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 15:17, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: I do not think that lilo can be booted from md device, try to use one of the physical volumes of this device (or disk device). Does lilo-installer display any disk devices (hda, sda...) in the menu? [...] GRUB probably cannot boot

Re: LVM on software RAID - LILO

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Peachey
On Friday 08 October 2004 13:28, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 15:17, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: I do not think that lilo can be booted from md device, try to use one of the physical volumes of this device (or disk device). Does lilo-installer display any disk devices