Hey listers:
I need some help (even if it is a point to the right list, in which
case I am sorry to bother). Recently, we purchased a new system that is
going to become our team's server. One of my colleagues was tasked with
getting it set up to do everything we needed out of it. This colleague
has since left, leaving me to do clean up. Here is what I have. The
system is a redhat (seawolf) distribution with dual hard drives. The
last thing I need to do is to repartition the second hard drive into two
large partitions for data storage. This is where the problem (at least
for me) comes in.
The sytem requires both hard drives to boot. If you unplug one hard
drive, it won't boot. If you plug that back in and unplug the other,
it won't boot. This could cause problems when I go to repartition the
other drive. I am not by any means an expert when it comes to Linux
(but I feel I am improving ) ;-)
Here is my lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/sdb7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=linux-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img
read-only
root=/dev/sdb7
and a partition list from /proc/partitions:
major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect
wuse running use aveq
8 0 35566479 sda 26 0 64 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30
8 1 3148708 sda1 6 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 2 24097 sda2 6 0 12 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
8 3 1 sda3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 5 21189703 sda5 6 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 6 10667128 sda6 6 0 12 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
8 7 530113 sda7 2 0 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 16 35566479 sdb 13031 16814 235214 94060 3874 6279 81350
575250 0 64460 669310
8 17 5245191 sdb1 313 174 3830 1980 158 19 1416 5480 0 2600
7460
8 18 24097 sdb2 38 470 1016 550 5 5 22 40 0 430 590
8 19 1 sdb3 1 0 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
8 21 6289416 sdb5 9583 10350 159398 51790 1217 458 13488 328830
0 48960 380620
8 22 16779861 sdb6 67 62 600 380 742 5025 46136 166440 0 2080
166820
8 23 3148708 sdb7 1773 1700 27772 10890 388 274 5392 38950 0
11530 49840
8 24 2096451 sdb8 1252 4058 42576 28430 1364 498 14896 35510 0
12360 63940
8 25 1975963 sdb9 3 0 18 30 0 0 0 0 0 30 30
I see what is happening. My colleague left the first drive alone which
contained the boot record and original partitions and partioned the
second drive to our needs. But now the boot record remains on the drive
to be used for storage. Is there a way for me to leave the boot record
on the first drive or should it be moved to the second? Any insight???
Thanks in advance..
DB
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