On the Caldera server that I am trying to setup with raid. I do an
fdisk, and l for list known partition types there is no fd (linux raid
auto) listed. Any ideas why not? On my workstation MDK7.2 I do the same
thing and I see the fd listed. Any Ideas why this might be? How do I
enable that on the Caldera box? Thanks
Dave
Dave Peters wrote:
>
> Hi there Marty,
>
> Yes I do definitely have some problems. I have not set the partitions to
> fd. I am not too sure how to do this properly. I have tried with fdisk,
> but if I put in fd it says unknown file type. How can I set my
> partitions to fd? I have had raid running by setting the current boot
> partition to failed and the second disk as active. When I reboot it
> dosn't want to work. The other thing that I have noticed is after I get
> the kernel panic error, if I do the ctrl-alt-del I do see a message
> saying stopping all md devices. (or something like that) I believe that
> this would mean that the raid is loading up at boot time. I have
> configured this in the ramdisk.
>
> Thanks Again,
> Dave
>
>
> Marty Richards wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Bootable RAID 1 is fun isn't it? ;)
> >
> > I think we saw this problem when playing with our Raid this week. My guesses
> > would be:
> >
> > *) Raid support is not enabled in the kernel
> > *) Auto-mount raid partitions are not enabled in the kernel
> > *) The raid partitions are not type fd
> > *) Something is broken in lilo. Check your lilo.conf and reinstall.
> >
> > I assume you have a boot disk and it boots if you use mount root=/dev/md0 ?
> >
> > Good luck ;)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Marty
> >
> > On Friday, March 30, 2001 10:25 PM, Dave Peters [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > wrote:
> > > Has anyone setup ide boot raid level 1 on a Caldera 2.3 server?
> > >
> > > Every thing looks good to me but when I attempt to boot from lilo the
> > > following occurs:
> > > lilo boots and gives me the options
> > > I choose linux
> > > Lilo shows loading kernel .... ok
> > > Lilo shows booting kernel .... wait
> > > Then it shows my ide devices at the bottom of the screen it scrolls
> > > through them on one line. Its pretty quick so I cant really read them
> > > all, then it says something about RAMDISK. This is all on that scrolling
> > > line. then it gives some adapter error. Something like adapter, errno =
> > > 2 . Then Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:00.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on what could be the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Dave Peters,
> > > Network Engineer / Management
> > >
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