Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday November 4, listacct1@lvwnet.com wrote: > >>If anybody (Neil?) can offer some advice on how to get LILO to write a >>boot sector to the RAID1 array pair, it would be greatly appreciated. I >>am so close to getting this working!!! >> >> > > First, lilo thinks it knows what "/dev/md*" means, and gets all > confused when it turns out to be different. > So create device names that *don't* start /dev/md. > e.g. > /dev/MDa == 60,0 > /dev/MDa1 == 60,1 > etc > > Second, you have to tell lilo about the geometry of /dev/MD*, because > it doesn't know: > > boot=/dev/MDa > disk=/dev/MDa > bios=0x80 > sectors=63 > heads=255 > cylinders=1024 > partitions=/dev/MDa1 > start=63 > > The "start" is very important. check what the start sector of MDa1 > is, and use that. > > Lilo should then work. > > NeilBrown thanks Neil! Getting ready to try this out. This looks really promising, makes a lot of sense. Vince - 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
