On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:25:42AM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 have been marked faulty and removed lilo > > will fail with the following message: > > Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0000 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?) > > Well, this is coherent, isn't it? No, this doesn't happen with a 2.4.26 kernel, only with a 2.6.6 (and maybe others in the 2.6.x series). > > After running a few tests it appears lilo will only stop complaining > > once the original raid1 set is restored _and_ synchronized. > [...] > > Any idea? Thanks in advance, > > Well, a question at first :) > Why do you need to run lilo after you failed one of the mirrors? I need to reboot to a degraded array to complete the filesystem conversion. > Anyways - I'm running lilo on degraded arrays and it works > very well. On which kernel? -- "When I give food to the poor I am called a saint, when I ask why they go hungry I am called a communist" --Bishop Helder Camara - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html