I thought I'd got this all cracked in the early hours of this morning. I _think_ I'd been putting boot=/dev/hda1 when I tried to write the revised lilo config to the MBR and perhaps that messed up hdb. I don't know, anyway, I started again, did everything in that howto pretty much to the letter and this time, after shifting boot to /dev/hdc and rebooting, I could add /dev/hdb1. However, lilo would not let me use a raid-extra-boot line and when I rebooted, the system hung right at the start. I moved hdb1 to hda1 and started again, this time it's all worked except for boot=/dev/md0 and the raid-extra-boot. Now lilo allows these and says it's written to both MBRs, but when I reboot lilo gets to the first twenty or so of the dots after "Loading Linux" and hangs there ... resolutely. A lot of pratting around with rescuing from the installation CD (must work out how to burn a rescue boot CDROM) and I am back to being able to get everything find if I boot from boot=/dev/hdc with root=/dev/md0 ... and I think I'll give up here as I must go back to doing my real job and having a life. If anyone can tell me what might be neeeded (I haven't tried things like bios=0x80 lines) I may find the energy to try them but not if this machine has become my working firewall! So I'm left thinking there's something, perhaps idiosyncratic to some BIOS or HDs or whatever, that means some of us have real problems writing LILO boot instructions to the two drives in a RAID1 boot array. I've leflt Maarten's listing of a SuSE lilo.conf to see if anyone has ideas. Thank everyone, Chris > Neil had some interesting points, but in the meantime here's my > working lilo.conf (which was written by the SuSE installer) in case it > helps you: > > boot = /dev/hda > change-rules > reset > default = linux > disk=/dev/hda > bios=0x80 > disk=/dev/hdc > bios=0x81 > lba32 > prompt > read-only > timeout = 80 > > image = /boot/vmlinuz > label = linux > initrd = /boot/initrd > root = /dev/md0 > > > Greetings, > Maarten > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle http://psyctc.org/ Email: chris@psyctc.org - 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
