Last ditch effort for RH9 and LSR0

Last ditch effort for RH9 and LSR0

[Brennahn Chesteine]

I am at my witts and with trying to install a new
kernel under RH9. My system is set up with "root" and
"swap" in LSR0 and "/boot" in LSR5. I have taken all
know suggestions to get 2.4.20 to boot but nothing
after a month. 

I was wondering if anybody had managed to install a
new kernel under RH8or9 with a similar configuration.
And if so could they save there current config to a
file and shoot it this way so I can see what the heck
I am doing wrong. 


thanks for all the help thus far!

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Re: Last ditch effort for RH9 and LSR0

[Mads Peter Bach]

Brennahn Chesteine wrote:
> I am at my witts and with trying to install a new
> kernel under RH9. My system is set up with "root" and
> "swap" in LSR0 and "/boot" in LSR5. I have taken all
> know suggestions to get 2.4.20 to boot but nothing
> after a month. 

If you by LSR5 mean Linux software RAID5, I'm not surprised it isn't working. 
You can't boot from a software RAID5 on Linux. To do that, lilo would have to 
know how to pull different data chunks from different drives.
/boot on RAID1 works because RAID1 puts the same data on both drives.

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Re: Last ditch effort for RH9 and LSR0

[Mads Peter Bach]

Brennahn Chesteine wrote:
> Then how does the stock RH kernel boot this cursid thing up? I have had 1
> and 5 and just a lone /boot partition but nothing has worked so far.

I have no idea. I can't see how they would be able to do it with RAID5, unless
grub or whatever bootloader RedHat uses is MUCH smarter than I give it credit for.

If you can't get it to boot, when your /boot is just a normal partition, then
you should probably look elsewhere for a problem.

If you include your bootup messages, it would be much easier to figure out what
goes wrong.

You could also include the output of "cat /proc/mdstat" and "mount", when your
system is bootet with the redhat kernel.

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Re: Last ditch effort for RH9 and LSR0

[Brennahn Chesteine]

Well I remember that I could not make my boot
partition RAID 0. That kinda ticked me off. You have
to understand, in my infiniate wisdom I purchaced a
Silicone Image ATA RAID card :( Yeah, stupid huh?

Has anyone ever used Vector Linux? I have it on my
laptop a 300 celery and it's ALOT lighter than RH,
wich I like. 

Is there a chance in heck that I could set up a
software RAID0 "root" parition before I install this
distro "Vector", then do the install? I have always
been able to install RH then rebuild X the WM and
kernel to my likeing but this has got me to a point to
where I will be up for learning something new. 

As for the RAM I have 512 but in order to install
Linux  on the main boxen I have to keep WinXP booted
in VMware ALWAYS for the woman so she can use the P.C.
Small price to pay in my opinion. 
--- Chris Davis <davis@lrtw.org> wrote:
> Here's what I know(or think I know):
>  - lilo can't boot from raid5 partitions.  If you
> want a raid5 root, 
>    make a raid1 or non-raid /boot and put your
> kernels there.
>  - raid0 swap is a bad idea.  If you just want
> bigger swap, just add two
>    swap partitions to fstab. Don't raid them, it's a
> performance hit.
> 
>    Also, you lose redundancy. If one of those
> partitions is damaged, or the
>    drive is, your machine could be toast if it was
> using swap. 
> 
>    Better is to raid1 the devices and use that as
> the swap partition. It's 
>    slower, but in 99.5% of cases, if you're worried
> about your swap speed,
>    you should really be adding more ram.
> 
> It possible that grub(i think rh9 uses grub by
> default) can boot from raid5.
> Maybe they have added a special module to make it
> work. I didn't think it
> could, but i could be wrong.
> 
> c
> 
> On Tue, 13 May 2003, Brennahn Chesteine wrote:
> 
> > I am at my witts and with trying to install a new
> > kernel under RH9. My system is set up with "root"
> and
> > "swap" in LSR0 and "/boot" in LSR5. I have taken
> all
> > know suggestions to get 2.4.20 to boot but nothing
> > after a month. 
> > 
> > I was wondering if anybody had managed to install
> a
> > new kernel under RH8or9 with a similar
> configuration.
> > And if so could they save there current config to
> a
> > file and shoot it this way so I can see what the
> heck
> > I am doing wrong. 
> > 
> > 
> > thanks for all the help thus far!
> > 
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Re: Last ditch effort for RH9 and LSR0

[Brennahn Chesteine]

cat /proc/mstat gave me this output. 


Personalities : [raid0] [raid1]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid0 hda3[0] hdc3[1]
      2048128 blocks 64k chunks

md2 : active raid0 hda2[0] hdc2[1]
      37478272 blocks 64k chunks

md1 : active raid1 hda1[0] hdc1[1]
      102208 blocks [2/2] [UU]


and grub looks like this 

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means
that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/md2
	initrd /initrd-2.4.20.img


title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/md2
	initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img


but where can I find my boot error messages? I have
checked /ver/log/boot but it never has info about my
failed startups.


Thanks for the help thus far !









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--- Brennahn Chesteine <ven_ficken@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well I remember that I could not make my boot
> partition RAID 0. That kinda ticked me off. You have
> to understand, in my infiniate wisdom I purchaced a
> Silicone Image ATA RAID card :( Yeah, stupid huh?
> 
> Has anyone ever used Vector Linux? I have it on my
> laptop a 300 celery and it's ALOT lighter than RH,
> wich I like. 
> 
> Is there a chance in heck that I could set up a
> software RAID0 "root" parition before I install this
> distro "Vector", then do the install? I have always
> been able to install RH then rebuild X the WM and
> kernel to my likeing but this has got me to a point
> to
> where I will be up for learning something new. 
> 
> As for the RAM I have 512 but in order to install
> Linux  on the main boxen I have to keep WinXP booted
> in VMware ALWAYS for the woman so she can use the
> P.C.
> Small price to pay in my opinion. 
> --- Chris Davis <davis@lrtw.org> wrote:
> > Here's what I know(or think I know):
> >  - lilo can't boot from raid5 partitions.  If you
> > want a raid5 root, 
> >    make a raid1 or non-raid /boot and put your
> > kernels there.
> >  - raid0 swap is a bad idea.  If you just want
> > bigger swap, just add two
> >    swap partitions to fstab. Don't raid them, it's
> a
> > performance hit.
> > 
> >    Also, you lose redundancy. If one of those
> > partitions is damaged, or the
> >    drive is, your machine could be toast if it was
> > using swap. 
> > 
> >    Better is to raid1 the devices and use that as
> > the swap partition. It's 
> >    slower, but in 99.5% of cases, if you're
> worried
> > about your swap speed,
> >    you should really be adding more ram.
> > 
> > It possible that grub(i think rh9 uses grub by
> > default) can boot from raid5.
> > Maybe they have added a special module to make it
> > work. I didn't think it
> > could, but i could be wrong.
> > 
> > c
> > 
> > On Tue, 13 May 2003, Brennahn Chesteine wrote:
> > 
> > > I am at my witts and with trying to install a
> new
> > > kernel under RH9. My system is set up with
> "root"
> > and
> > > "swap" in LSR0 and "/boot" in LSR5. I have taken
> > all
> > > know suggestions to get 2.4.20 to boot but
> nothing
> > > after a month. 
> > > 
> > > I was wondering if anybody had managed to
> install
> > a
> > > new kernel under RH8or9 with a similar
> > configuration.
> > > And if so could they save there current config
> to
> > a
> > > file and shoot it this way so I can see what the
> > heck
> > > I am doing wrong. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > thanks for all the help thus far!
> > > 
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