Re: Making bootable SATA RAID1 array in Mandriva 2006

[Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:51:42PM -0400, andy liebman wrote:
>-- I copied the contents of /dev/sda1 (/ partition) and /dev/sda6 (/home 
>partition) to /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb6 using rsync.
this is not really important, but you should have used the raid devices
as a target.

>-- I edited fstab and lilo.conf on the the RAID1 "/" partition so that 
>they would refer to /dev/md1
>-- I ran chroot on the /dev/md1 partition
did you mount /dev, /proc and /sys before chrooting?
i.e
mount --bind /dev /newroot/dev
mount -t proc /proc /newroot/proc
mount -t sysfs /sys /newroot/sys

>-- I set up an /etc/mdadm.conf file (using mdadm --detail 
>--scan>>/etc/mdadm.conf   -- that's where Mandriva puts it)
>-- I added to lilo.conf "raid-extra-boot=  and tried both "mbr" and 
>"/dev/sda,/dev/sdb"
mbr should do

>-- I ran mkinitrd and created a new initrd in /boot on /dev/md1.  I got 
>an error about not finding the 3w_9xxx driver, but I don't need to load 
>that in the initrd anyway so I reran with --builtin=3w_9xxx so that 
>mkinitrd would skip that driver that I don't need.
>
>BUT, after all of this, I get a bunch of errors when I try to run lilo:
>     Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0000

Regards,
L.

-- 
Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
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