Re: lilo / raid1 / mbr problem

[peter colton <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:20, Dirk Bonenkamp - Bean IT wrote:

	Here is a link that should be of use to you with setting up raid1 from a 
debian install. 
	http://nepotismia.com/debian/raidinstall/

		bye for now 

                        peter colton
> Hi All,
>
> Running debian testing/unstable with 2.6.9
>
> I wanted to reconfigure a server so that it used a raid 1 array instead of
> just one disk.
>
> This is what I did:
>
> Reconfigured the system so that it boots from /dev/hdc
>
> Created a raid 1 array (/dev/md0) on /dev/hda (/dev/hda1, just one raid
> partition plus one swap partition). Marked the second disk as 'missing'.
> The idea is to add this drive to the array once the OS is transferred to
> the raid array.
>
> Created a reiserfs filesystem on /dev/md0.
>
> Mounted /dev/md0 under /mnt and copied the running OS to /dev/md0.
>
> Changed /mnt/etc/lilo.conf:
>
> lba32
> boot=/dev/md0
> raid-extra-boot=mbr
> root=/dev/md0
> install=/boot/boot-menu.b
> map=/boot/map
> message=/boot/bootmess.txt
>          prompt
>          #single-key
>          delay=100
>          timeout=100
>
> vga=normal
>
> default=2.6.9
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9
>          label=2.6.9
>          read-only
>
> Then, when I try:
>
> lilo -r /mnt
>
> I get:
>
> Warning: Int 0x13 function 8 and function 0x48 return different
> head/sector geometries for BIOS drive 0x81
> Fatal: Unable to open mb
>
> I've googled around, but I can't find an answer. I've did this 'changing to
> raid' thing serveral times, all went OK. I've checked the disk, replaced
> the disk... I'm out of clues... Any hint or help would be very appreciated!
>
> TIA,
>
> Dirk