Re: Booting from 2nd HD with raid1

[Fiodar Bandarenka <mailwg@gmx.net>]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 02:20:53PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Dreier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't make lilo booting from my 2nd HD on my RAID1 installation 
> (simulating 1st hd failure).. normal booting and booting from 1st HD is ok.
> 
> lilo hangs after:
> LILO 2.22 .................................
> 
> 
> I tried different solutions from howto's and forums.. but I should make 
> something wrong :-(
> 
> My pc runs debian stable with 2xSamsung SATA HD, md0[hde1,hdg1] '/boot', 
> md1[hde6,hdg6] '/'.
> 
> My first question is : should I really make 2 lilo config? (actually i 
> tried, without success)
> 
> Should I turn off lba support? in bios? in lilo?
> 
> Should I put geometry in lilo? does lba-aware-bios bypass this 
> parameters? which geometry should I use? (fdisk give two different geom 
> for both HD, and anotherone is shown in syslog...)
> 
> Is there a way to 'debug' my lilo config, or should I go further with 
> try-and-error ?
> 
> Yeah.. lot of questions... sorry.
> 
> Thanks for all you hints and help.

I never worked with RAID and SATA, but can you swap disks on interface?

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