Re: RAID Root

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner@best.com>]

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Did ya find this howto?  Very informative.  All the other RAID docs I've
seen are "bad".

 http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/


Basically you need a /boot partition to hold the kernel images.  Vodka
actually has two so that it can boot off either disk should one fail.  
If you want to see how I did it, look at:

/etc/lilo.conf
/etc/lilo.conf.sdb
/etc/raidtab
/boot
/boot2

on Vodka.

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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Mainly directed at Aaron but any suggestions welcome:
> 
> I'm trying to set up raid-1 root on a system here at work.  I've got 2.2.6
> in place with the latest matching raid0145 patches, V0.90 of the
> raidtools, detection of the raid devices at boot time is working fine...
> but when I try to run lilo with a root=/dev/md0 or root=900 it comes back
> and says: "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900".  Anyone
> encounter this before?  Aaron?  If so please help :).  I'm giviung up on
> it for the day... but I gotta get this box up... *sigh*  and I don't want
> to forgo redundancy on my / partition.  :(
> 
> Thanks guys...
> 
> Jason
> 
> 


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