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Re: Boot on "RAID 1" with "LILO" and "mdadm"



On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:25:49 -0300, Agustín wrote in message 
<[🔎] 01ad01c494ff$b83a3410$6800a8c0@Agus>:

> Hi Everybody!
> 
> I'm trying to run a bootable RAID 1. I'm using mdadm and everything
> goes fine. All the partitions are completely synchronized and the
> problem comes in the last step:
> 
> I edit lilo to boot from the RAID and reboot. The system hangs up
> saying "LIL". I've read something in the LILO documentation as:
> LIL (The descriptor table could not be read.)
> LIL (This is typically caused by media failure or geometry mismatch)
> 
> I have two SATA WD800 disks. I'm running debian with the kernel 2.4.19
> and LILO 22.2

..chk out backports.org

> My LILO configuration looks like this:
> 
> boot=/dev/md1

..these are known to lilo as such?  
I used '/dev/hda', '/dev/hdc' etc, 
and with a "fallback" to try boot the 
"other" drive on each.  Also throw 
in panic options.

> root=/dev/md2
> raid-extra-boot=/dev/hda,/dev/hdc
> default=RAID
> image=/vmlinuz
>     label=RAID
>     read-only
> 
> The other options are as they come in the one disk installation.
> 
> I'll appreciate any comment! Thanks in advance,
> 
> Agustín
> 
> 


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