From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: eim Subject: LILO related problem Date: 25 Apr 2002 20:10:51 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1019758252.469.31.camel@eimbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids LILO related problem =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Hallo linux-raid folks, after searching answers to my LILO - RAID related problem on different internet forums and mailing list archives I've decided to post my question here, hope to get=20 some suggestions, thanks. The problem is this, I've got several 'new-style' RAID capable boxes with kernel 2.2.19 (raid patched) and two IBM 2G HDD (SCSI) drives on each machine. All those boxes are powered by Debian GNU/Linux (stable) and successfully boot from their RAID root partitions. Here's the partition scheme, nothing special... * /dev/md0 root * /dev/md1 swap Two days ago I needed to recompile the kernel on some of the RAID boxes, as I use LILO after successfull compilation I've done as usual: 'lilo -v -v'. /etc/lilo.conf was setup without any disk geometry information and with root and boot pointing to /dev/md0. And here's the problem... * On some boxes LILO didn't remember anything about the Hard disk geometry witch I've never specified becaus LILO has always worked, and left me this message "Error: GET_DISK:INFO: invalid argument" * On some other boxes LILO installed the bootloader only in /dev/sda or only in /dev/sdb, not on both. * And on another box LILO installed the bootloader two times in /dev/sdb and one time in /dev/sda, why to times in /dev/sdb ? Well, this is quite strange, the raid devices were all running fine on all linux boxes when I've installed LILO, so why all this problems ? Maybe it's related to some RAID resyncing with was done in the past, is this possible ? Thanks for any help, folks and... =2E..have a nice time ! - Ivo --=20 =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB = =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB Ivo Marino eim@eimbox.org UN*X Developer, running Debian GNU/Linux irc.OpenProjects.net #debian http://eimbox.org/~eim http://eimbox.org =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB = =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB =BB=AB - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html