On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Tim Moore wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: > > What I wanted was an 8-way RAID-1 for the boot partition (all of /, in > > reality) and I've done this many times in the past on other 2-5 way > > systems without issue. So I do the stuff I've done in the past, and theres > > nothing really new to me in that respect. (I'm using LILO) So when I try > > to get it to boot off the md device, it boots and says LIL and then > > nothing more. (Lilo diagnostics interpret this as a media failure, or > > geometry mismatch) If I make it boot off /dev/sda1 then it would work. > > We put /boot on 100MB /dev/sda1 partition, rest of drive is md. Lilo > script section does > dd if=/dev/sda of=/boot/boot446.sda bs=446 count=1 && \ > fdisk -l /dev/sda > /boot/fdisk.sda && \ > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 > every time a new kernel is built. Recovery is much easier without RAID > involved (lilo 22.6). I've considered manipulating the boot block/disk > label on copy so that it would boot off any off sda1 or sdb1 transparently. It's now booting off a 32MB flash IDE drive thing which is mounted read-only under /boot. I have lilo remount it r/w the do its stuff, then remount it r/o again. I could boot it OK under raid-1 off the 4 drives on the on-board controller. As soon as I plugged in PCI disk contorllers it all goes pear-shaped. This motherboard & bios and serious issues with more than 4 SATA disks. > Flashing from 1.x to 2.02b, same problem. Power off, pull plug, pull > both power connectors off mobo, wait 15 seconds, clear CMOS for 15 > seconds, reboot, reset BIOS, no worries. I re-flashed one board to 2.02b - it helps in that the system doesn't lock-hard with one make of 3112 card, but the other make still can cause a hard lockup. I also seem to have lose the use of PCI slots 3 and 4 with this new BIOS. One board died during re-flashing, so it's gone back. Gordon - 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
