Re: Boot on "RAID 1" with "LILO" and "mdadm"
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:33:13 -0300, Agustín wrote in message
<[🔎] 020b01c49509$23436480$6800a8c0@Agus>:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arnt Karlsen" <arnt@c2i.net>
> > To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 3:10 PM
> > Subject: Re: Boot on "RAID 1" with "LILO" and "mdadm"
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:25:49 -0300, Agustín wrote in message
> > <[🔎] 01ad01c494ff$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
> Dear Arnt,
>
> Thank you very much for your reply!
>
> Could you send me your lilo.conf configuration to compare it with
> mine?
..hah! It went out my door years ago, I use Grub now, easier to set up
and much more forgiving IME. I also remember discussing this on D-U
and Usenet, google for my email address and $query to see my angle
on whatever.
http://braindamage.alal.com/archives/debian-user/20030827/0532.html
..or JRTFU http://rootraiddoc.alioth.debian.org/
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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