From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Dake Subject: Re: RAID 1 cannot boot (using grub) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 10:10:18 -0700 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EEDF9FA.70707@mvista.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: Derek Yeung Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Derek, Lilo supports booting to RAID 1 volumes, and I know it has worked since I've tested it. As for GRUB, I've never managed to get it to work, but I have not tried with a new grub for 9 months atlesat. So the recomendation is to try lilo. Good luck -steve Derek Yeung wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I would very much appreciate insight onto this problem: > >System: IBM xSeries 335 / IDE Mirroring / RedHat 8 / Grub > >I'm working on setting up mirroring on 2 IDE disks in RedHat 8. I >followed Neil Brown's email to Stephen Lee (dated 20 Apr 2002). > >I created a degraded RAID 1 using /dev/hdc1, created a filesystem on >it, copied everything from the existing boot to the new md device, >modified the fstab accordingly. Without the primary device added to >the md set (meaning still working in degraded mode), the machine boots >(with a few hitches -- something about a bad superblock and ext3 >mounting, which i will post more detail later) -- but, it boots. >The problem is after I add the /boot partition to the md set (i.e.: add >hda1 to md1, which md1 already has hdc1), and then reboot, the machine >fails to boot. It stops after printing "GRUB". Does anyone have any idea >why? > >I'd very much appreciate any ideas/solutions. > >Thank you very, very much > >/dky > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > >