raid5 troubles

2000-07-20 Thread Hermann 'mrq1' Gausterer
i want to use my 3 4gb uw harddiscs in a raid5 combination i do the steps discribed in the howto at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-4.html my /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 chunk-size 32 # Spare

Re: raid5 troubles

2000-07-20 Thread Hermann 'mrq1' Gausterer
hi, to everybody on the list, thank you again for your help, it works ! :-)) [mrq1@mrqserv2 mrq1]$ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid5 sda1[3] sdc1[1] sdb1[0] 8466048 blocks level 5, 32k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [UU_]

Re: raid autodetect problem

2000-08-12 Thread Hermann 'mrq1' Gausterer
hi christian if you have a raid-root-fs, then i think the problem is that the kernel cannot load the modules unless the rootfilessystem is mounted and /lib/modules/ is available. but without the module, a mount is not possible. :-o have you tried with compiled in support ? ps: nice to see

Re: raid autodetect problem

2000-08-12 Thread Hermann 'mrq1' Gausterer
i have also some add-ons for the howto: i have mailed them to michael, but i got no answer :-( again my points: 1) at 4.4 Copy the current OS to the new raid device you should add a hint for creating a empty boot and proc directory, my rh6.1 box hangs after the first reboot with the floppy,