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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 02:56:07PM -0400, ron.peterson at yellowbank.com wrote: > How did you write the boot loader to the MBR? Red Hat's 7.3 installer wrote it originally. To recover my array after playing with Mandrake I used the lilo inside my Red Hat install to rewrite it. On my co-worker's machine we have tried both the RH 7.3 lilo and the newer lilo on the Knoppix CD. > If your BIOS supports booting off hdc (?), then lilo.conf would have > to be edited to reflect that (boot=/dev/hdc, root=/dev/hdc3, etc.). Ah, but here is where the fact of raid confuses things. I have "boot=/dev/md6" and "root=/dev/md5" in the lilo.conf! These are the meta-devices created by the software raid 1 (under the meta-device is a /dev/hda partition and a /dev/hdc partition). I don't expect that lilo knows how to start up raid, that somehow the kernel is boot strapping it. But how did lilo find the kernel? I don't yet understand. These are complicated regions, I say. -kb, the Kent who (reasonably) wants his bootable software raid to be able to boot off of either of the redundant disks.
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