Welllll, tried to switch the other system over to raid boot and something went wrong ether with the copy or with menu.lst change or with grub, I think. I changed the boot order moving the ide below the 3 sata drives and before the grub boot menu came up I got an "error 2" This system is booting from hda1 and will be booting from md0 like the other system. This system has 3 sata drives, so md0 and md1 where setup has raid1 plus spare. To set up group I used: sudo grub --no-floppy Grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda Grub> root (hd0,0) Grub> setup (hd0) Grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb Grub> root (hd0,0) Grub> setup (hd0) Grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdc Grub> root (hd0,0) Grub> setup (hd0) Grub> quit it gave me errors for sdc because it is not formated as formating was done on after the array was made. I assume that madadm will take care of boot setup if it activates it? I used grml cd started with "grml swraid" and to copy I used: rsync -cavHh --progress --delete /mnt/sdd1/ /mnt/md0 While booted from hda1 fdisk -l gives: sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x6b381dfe Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 4660 37431418+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 4661 4865 1646662+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 4661 4865 1646631 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x94140963 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 3040 24418768+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 3041 3649 4891792+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 3650 60801 459073440 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf1814421 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 3040 24418768+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 3041 3649 4891792+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 3650 60801 459073440 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x371b6063 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 3040 24418768+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc2 3041 3649 4891792+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc3 3650 60801 459073440 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/md0: 25.0 GB, 25004736512 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 6104672 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md2: 940.1 GB, 940182208512 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 229536672 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1: 5009 MB, 5009113088 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 1222928 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table -------------------------------------------------------------- df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 36G 2.9G 31G 9% / tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 120K 9.9M 2% /dev tmpfs 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm /dev/md0 23G 2.9G 19G 13% /mnt/md0 /dev/md2 862G 227G 592G 28% /mnt/md2 -------------------------------------------------------------- menu.lst for raid # kopt=root=/dev/md0 ro quiet # groot=(hd0,0) title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25.9.20081002.1 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.9.20081002.1 root=/dev/md0 ro quiet title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25.9.20081002.1 (single-user mode) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.9.20081002.1 root=/dev/md0 ro quiet single -- 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
