Re: linux software RAID with hot-swap hardware
Russell Coker wrote:
> > boot = /dev/hda, map = /boot/map.0301
> > Added Linux *
> > boot = /dev/hdc, map = /boot/map.1601
> > Added Linux *
>
> That looks like an old version of LILO. The latest LILO in Debian is
> 22.3.3 and doesn't work like that.
Yes, at home I have 22.3.3-2.
> > The above is from a Redhat 7.3 system but this worked back in Redhat 6.2,
> > I have also done this with a sid system within the past month.
>
> Strange, it doesn't work like that for me on my SID systems, and I haven't
> made a new release of LILO since September last year.
My mother's computer has unstable installed and presumably the same lilo
(22.3.3-2), if not at least a very close version since I installed her system
about a month ago. When I run lilo on her system I see similar output to the
lilo output that I quoted from the redhat system.
> This is an interesting discussion, but you didn't answer my question of why
> anyone would want to run install-mbr on a RAID device.
That I don't know (wasn't me that tried to do it). I had thought that maybe
install-mbr but I realize now that it is not. I'll have to read up on
install-mbr and re-read your howto, sounds like a very useful tool.
Fraser
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