Hi All,
Thanks for all your help with this, especially the step by step guide from
John. I nearly gave up - instead its now happily booting from the raid1
device ;)
The trick is to make sure you have the right version of the raidtools and
HOWTO. If your howto talks about using mdadd then its seriously out of date
and you're on the long road.
Longer term though, imho the procedure needs to be dramatically simplified
to something similar to other operating systems. The 26 step job is a trifle
messy and its easy to stray...
Cheers,
Marty
On Tuesday, March 27, 2001 7:43 PM, Jeffrey Borg [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
>
> One more thing
>
>
> Just in case you think you have /etc/raidtab wrong
>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, John Ferlito wrote:
>
> > f) vi /etc/raidtab and add something like this
> >
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> > raid-level 1
> > nr-raid-disks 2
> > nr-spare-disks 0
> > chunk-size 4
> > persistent-superblock 1
> > device /dev/somenonexistintdevice
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > failed-disk 0
> > device /dev/hdc3
> > raid-disk 1
> >
> > This will tell the raid tools that you want raid 1 on two disks but that
> > currently hda3 is a failed disk so don't use it.
> >
>
> I just did this in case something went wrong!
>
> then you will be 100% certain that it won't touch the existing drive.
>
> then just fix it up later.
>
> Oh yeah Print out the how to as well and read it a few more times.
>
> Jeff
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