From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Dawson Subject: Re: raid'ing problems Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:58:04 +0100 (GMT Standard Time) Message-ID: References: <1129899043.32525.4.camel@plauda5.rx30.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1129899043.32525.4.camel@plauda5.rx30.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Lauda Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi Peter, I'd follow the instructions here: http://www.linuxhowtos.org/System/raid.htm Note that I've not actually tried it myself, but from a quick glance through appears to be reasonable. Of course you do have a backup before you start just in case, don't you? Following the instructions at the end of the page worked for me when I was setting up Grub to boot from a software RAID1 array. Regards Andy On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Peter Lauda wrote: > If anyone is listening.... > > I have read the howto's and all the FAQ's I can find. I am trying to do > the following and having zero success: > > An installed system needs to have a second disk setup with the first as > a raid 1 set. > > I have been able to boot from a CD and create the md0 md1 and md2 > devices. I cannot however, get any of these to mount afterwards. I > assume that mount doesn't know what type of fs these are and I'm not > seeing anything in the docs about what type I can use. > > Eventually this raid set needs to be able to boot. We use grub as the > boot loader. If anyone has done this or knows how and can offer any > assistance I thank you in advance. > > We are using 2.4.29 kernel in a home rolled package but have both > raidtools and mdadm tools available. > > Cheers! > --p > > > > - > 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 > Dr. Andy Dawson A.J.Dawson@Bradford.ac.uk http://www.mossie.org http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity