Re: Woody root on RAID and 2.4.17
Hi Alvin,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:
> a. try to boot debian off of one single scsi disk first
It works fine off one disk. I have installed on one disk and will be
transferring to RAID as per Boot+Root+RAID+Lilo-HOWTO.
> - copy the initrd.tgz file and the kernel
> onto floppy
I'm not using an initrd; the SCSI driver is compiled in the kernel, as
is the RAID support. Used to work fine on potato with patched 2.2.19...
> - you will need it to read the scsi disks...
> and cant read teh disk till you have the scsi driver
> ( catch-22 problem )
>
> - make a boot floppy that boots debian on one scsi disk first...
> ( at least i would wanna know that i can boot a regular
> ( scsi disk first from itself... and boot the scsi off a floppy
The single disk boots off of the single disk MBR, so it's not a SCSI
driver issue.
> b. make sure that your partition type is fd ( raid autodetect )
It is; the arrays on the other disks are started automatically when I boot
into the single disk.
> when you are ready to build your sda1 and sdb1 root raid ...
> - i assume you have a typo below for your /boot raid partition
> definitions
Sorry:
root fs: /dev/md2 (sda2+sdb2)
/boot: /dev/md1 (sda1 +sdb1)
> c. make sure lilo.conf has a line for initrd=initrd.gz
Not using initrd...
> and use lba32 nt linear
Tried it both ways, no joy...
> i'd also remove the chs info from lilo.conf
OK, will try that next.
> - patches arent needed for raid0/raid1 for 2.2 or 2.4 kernels...
> and probably required for raid5 on most 2.2 kernels
I'm using 2.4.17 without any patches.
Thanks,
G.
>
> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, George Karaolides wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone successfully built a woody system with root fs on software
> > RAID and kernel 2.4 ?
> >
> > I am running several installations of potato with root fs on RAID and
> > kernel 2.2.19 with the raid-a1 patch, but my attempts to build one with
> > woody and kernel version 2.4.17 have failed so far.
> >
> > I've searched the web quith thoroughly but have failed to locate an
> > indication that to build root fs on RAID with 2.4, a different strategy
> > must be followed to the one used with the 2.2 kernels and the "new"
> > RAID patches.
> >
> > When booting, lilo fails with either L<nothing> or L 01 01 01 01 01... I
> > have tried both "lba32" and "linear" in lilo.conf without result.
> >
> > I am following the same method as I used successfully with potato and
> > kernel 2.2.19:
> >
> > - Root fs on /dev/md2 (RAID-1) (sda2+sdb2)
> >
> > - /boot in /dev/md1 (RAID-1) (sda2+sdb2)
> >
> > Included in lilo.conf:
> >
> > # The root fs device
> > disk=/dev/md2
> >
> > # Geometry obtained by fdisk -ul
> > cylinders=8704
> > heads=64
> > sectors=32
> >
> > # We will use the SCSI bios to choose which MBR to boot from;
> > # in which case it will be assigned BIOS ID 0x80
> > bios=0x80
> >
> > # The /boot device, as a partition of the root device; this is
> > # a trick to tell lilo where to look for the /boot data.
> > partition=/dev/md1
> >
> > # The sector the /boot device starts from
> > # (first sector of one of the partitions in the array
> > # /dev/md1, i.e. /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1; life is easier
> > # if they are both the same).
> > start=32
> >
> > # The MBR we will actually be installing to. We can change this
> > # to /dev/sdb and rul lilo again so we can boot from either disk.
> > boot=/dev/sda
> >
> > # The root device
> > root=/dev/md2
> >
> > <remainder of lilo.conf is fairly standard>
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
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