Re: Booting from 2nd HD with raid1
hi ya frederic
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Frédéric 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 .................................
>
what does your lilo.conf look like
- you only need one lilo.conf
- simply disconnecting hda should allow you to boot
off hdc without having to touch/type anything
important lines in the lilo.conf file
boot=/dev/md0
root=/dev/md0
what is the partition type of the disk
fdisk -l /dev/hda
fdisk -l /dev/hdc
== do NOT use disks on the same ide cable in raid1 for booting
- some bios doesnt see the hdb if hda is missing
-- if you are booting of hde/hdg...
temporarily move it to hda and hdc for simple testing of lilo
booting process
- some bios doesnt boot from disks not connected to
the ide0/ide1 ports on the motherboard
c ya
alvin
> 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 ?
>
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