On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 03:55:38PM -0700, Duncan Laurie mentioned: > > [root@midir root]# raidhotadd /dev/md1 /dev/hda2 > > md: can not import hda2, has active inodes! > > md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 > > /dev/md1: can not hot-add disk: invalid argument. I've just tryed to get RAID1 going on another non-cobalt host, and I seem to be doing something simple wrong, as I get something quite similar here too: [root@jny02 /root]# raidhotadd /dev/md0 /dev/hda5 /dev/md0: can not hot-add disk: invalid argument. md: trying to hot-add hda5 to md0 ... md: can not import hda5, has active inodes! md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 [root@jny02 /root]# mount /dev/md0 on / type ext2 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) This is likely because to get it to boot, like the cobalt, I'm actually passing root=/dev/hda5 to the kernel, not /dev/md0. When I used "root=/dev/md0", the kernel booted, mounted root, and then moaned that it couldn't find init (so I had to wonder what filesystem it ended up mounting). I tryed to setup my lilo.conf from; http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-5.html but because I don't quite understand what it's doing, I could be doing something wrong: My lilo.conf is: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b linear disk=/dev/md0 bios=0x80 sectors=63 heads=255 cylinders=5005 partition=/dev/md1 start=63 image=/boot/bzImage label=2.4.18 read-only root=/dev/md0 Is there anything obviously wrong with that ? John - 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