Hi Everyone. My question is in regards to getting LILO to boot from my / partition which is part of a RAID1 (the error is "Cannot find superblock" which is expected if lilo cannot access it) This is the partition setup: /dev/hda -------- /dev/hda1: / 9775MB reiserfs /dev/hda2: SWAP 256MB swap /dev/hdb -------- /dev/hdb1: / 9775MB reiserfs /dev/hdb2: SWAP 256MB swap /dev/md0 (RAID1 - Mirroring) -------- /dev/hda1 & /dev/hdb1 Originally I set it up as having a /boot partition separately but that didn't help lilo find what it needs to boot the system (ie. /sbin/init, etc). I'd like to use reiserfs on the / partitions and also make them part of a RAID1. It doesn't sound so difficult.. but it's a little tricky. This is the steps I took to *try* and get it working (unsucessfully): 1/ configured my /dev/hda drive as: /boot 16MB ext2 , SWAP 256MB, / 200MB ext2, /newroot 9575MB reiserfs 2/ installed BASE Mandrake 7.2 into / and re-compiled kernel 2.4.2 with raid support, etc. 3/ Made my /dev/md0 raid (/dev/hda4 and /dev/hdb1) and issued a mkreiserfs /dev/md0 4/ copied the current "/" partition into /newroot 5/ updated lilo.conf to refect the changes All was going good but when I rebooted, it started to boot OK and it got to a point (just before it starts the /sbin/init process) where it says "cannot read superblock". I have enabled "persistant-superblock 1" in my /etc/raidtab file. I read' a document which said this option would fix my problem but I already had it enabled from the beginning so that's not it. My lilo.conf is nothing special. Basically "root=/dev/md0" and "boot=/dev/hda" and the initrd pointing to the /boot/initrd-2.4.2.img file I created and that's about it (amongst the standard lilo.conf options). Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can get my system to boot off / (which is part of the RAID1) ? I rather not have a separate /boot partition considering that if the primary drive dies, /boot will die with it as it's not part of the RAID1 so I rather just have one big "/" partition and a SWAP partition. Sorry about the long email and I hope someone can make some sense out of it :) Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
