Re: Can't boot from /dev/md0 (RAID-1)

[Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 06:22:25PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 03:37:44PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > I hope this is not OT - didn't find any LILO mailing list. after trying 
> > virtually everything - can anyone help me with a tip?
> > 
> > 
> > Running 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, RedHat 7.3 (LILO version 21.4-4), I have root on 
> > /dev/md0 on RAID-1 on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. I've tried the howto at 
> > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-3.html#ss3.1, but it still 
> please someone update that blasted howto, lilo has been supporting boot from md
> for ages.

This has been in the Software-RAID HOWTO since january 2000.

> 
> use:
> boot=/dev/md0
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b

This is indeed the correct way to do things.

Actually, on a Debian box I set up recently I needed to do the
following:

  boot=/dev/md0
  raid-extra-boot=/dev/sda,/dev/sdb

This tells LILO exactly where to write the MBRs - this is not usually
needed though.

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