Re: Software raid 1 w/raidhotadd

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

> > 	- try using syslinux to make your boot floppy
> > 		http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/
> > 		( see the Boot.syslinux section )
> 
> yep made a boot floppy, but made it manually, the system pukes when
> it tries to load the scsi driver. lots of bus timeouts, and eventually

probably needs a kernel w/ scsi built into the kernel
or initrd .. which in turns load the scsi driver

> just hangs. Tried 2 different aic7xxx drivers, and 3-4 different kernel
> configs(based on 2.4.20).
> 
> > you do NOT install lilo into each disk separately, as if it was separate
> > disks
> 
> but if disk 1 fails, there is no bootloader on disk 2 ..so I need some
> sort of bootloader on disk 2 if I am to try to boot this way. Unless I
> can get a workin boot disk.

you need to fix lilo.conf or equiv
	boot=/dev/md0
	root=/dev/md0
	
	.... NOT /dev/sda1  ... /dev/sdb1...
	( and it has to be "raid autodetect"

c ya
alvin