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Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot



Hi Alvin,

On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:02:35PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:

> lilo.conf looks correct  for boot= and root=
> ( "correct" ==  the way i do it and works for me )
> 	- nothing wrong with lilo.conf
> 
> - other last issue is that is just a dumb lilo problem
>   and nothing to do with raid
> 	( a few painful experiments )
> 
> 	- try using "linear" instead of lba32

done

> 	- you can also try removing "install="

done

> 	- you should remove "raid-extra-boot"
> 	( i haven't seen it before )

done



> - it's a good test you're doing to disconnect sda
>   to see if its boots .. also repeat with a disconnected sdb
> 	- and verify that written data to one disks
> 	is sync'd to the other disk when its "reconnected"

It boots of both disks (when the other one is disconnected)

> 	watch it syncing with "cat /proc/mdstat"

However, it does not sync automatically.  I have to add the disk into
the array manually with mdadm.


Thanks in advance,
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