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From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] mirroring boot and root
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:31:22 +0200
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On Saturday 02 June 2001 17:21, evan.day@home.com wrote:
> LILO 21.7 contains support for placing a boot sector on RAID devices.  =
I
> used install-mbr to put a boot MBR on sda and sdb, then lilo to put a
> LILO boot sector on /dev/md0, which is sda1 and sdb1.  The rest of my
> system is built on PV /dev/md1, which is sda4 and sdb4.

I tried the booting from RAID-1 thing on one of my IDE systems.  It seems=
=20
impossible with the current LILO because it writes different boot data to=
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each drive, so if the first drive is removed the other drive becomes BIOS=
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device 0x80 and won't boot because LILO expects 0x81.

The next version of LILO may address this...

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