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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:09:27PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > 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! Oops, forgot about that. I just went and looked at the lilo.conf on a running software raid system, and have: boot=/dev/sda image=/vmsomethingorother root=/dev/md2 Otherwise, like you say, how could the system find md stuff before there is a kernel. But you were sucessfully booting before... (?) I dunno. > 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. -- Ron Peterson -o) 87 Taylor Street /\\ Granby, MA 01033 _\_v https://www.yellowbank.com/ ----
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