hi ya christian.. did you use "fd" partition type when creating/partitioning the disk ?? what does lilo.conf ( or grub ) look like ?? thanx alvin On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Christian Schmit wrote: > > I installed RH 7.3 on raid1 using the standard > RH 7.3 GUI setup. > > Everything installs fine. According to mdstat > raid1 seems to be running fine: > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > read_ahead 1024 sectors > md1 : active raid1 hda5[0] hdc5[1] > 3494016 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md2 : active raid1 hda3[0] hdc3[1] > 16892224 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md3 : active raid1 hda2[0] hdc2[1] > 19454592 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > md0 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdc1[1] > 361344 blocks [2/2] [UU] > > unused devices: <none> > > However when shutting down the system and > disconnecting the 1st IDE drive I cannot > boot from the mirrored disk. I assume this > is because the MBR is not mirrored. > > So to see if all the data is present on the > mirrored disk I launch the "linux rescue" mode > from the RH7.3 CD but it cannot find any partitions > to mount from on the 2nd mirrored disk. > > Making the same with the primary ide disk works > fine, in thsi case "linux rescue" can mount all > partitions. > > How can I check if all data is being mirrored > on the 2nd ide disk? > > How do I make the 2nd ide disk bootable? > (I use grub as bootloader) > I already tried: > > root (hd1,0) > setup (hd1) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
