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Re: lilo fails on root raid 1 on 2.6.4



On Thursday April 8, lshobbrook@fasttrack.net.au wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've struck an issue attempting to run lilo when booting to a raid 1
> system using a stock Debain 2.6.4-1-686 unstable release kernel image.
> 
> After sucecssfully booting into the raid filesystem, attempts to run
> lilo give me the error...
> 
> Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0000 (NFS/RAID mirror
> down ?)
> 

You probably need a "raid-extra-boot=" option in lilo.conf
Just list the partition(s) that are currently active and it might
work.

Check "man lilo.conf" for more details

NeilBrown

> 
> This error occurrs regardless of how I specify the root device (eg
> root=dev/hda2 or root=/dev/md0).
> The mirror is in a failed disk state, with /dev/hda2 holding on to old
> file system and manually marked as failed.
> (This process has never been an issue in the past) Conf files listed
> below...
> 
> Has anyone come across this before?
> 
> Any suggestions much appreciated,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Lewis
> 
> 
> Raidtab
> 
> raiddev /dev/md0
>         raid-level              1
>         nr-raid-disks           2
>         nr-spare-disks          0
>         persistent-superblock   1
>         device                  /dev/hda2
>         failed-disk             0
>         device                  /dev/hdc2
>         raid-disk               1
> 
> fstab
> 
> /dev/md0        /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro
> 0       1
> /dev/hda1       none            swap    sw
> 0       0
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults
> 0       0
> /dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto
> 0       0
> /dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto
> 0       0
> 
> 
> lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/md0
> install=/boot/boot-menu.b
> map=/boot/map
> prompt
> timeout=100
> 
> 
> default=Linux
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
>         initrd=/initrd.img
> #        append="root=/dev/md0"
> 
> image=/vmlinuz.old
>         label=LinuxOLD
>         read-only
>         initrd=/initrd.img.old
>         append="root=/dev/hda2"
> 
> 
> 
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