Re: strange lilo error

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@RZ.TU-Ilmenau.DE>]

Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex@apartia.org> wrote:
> Once /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 have been marked faulty and removed lilo
> will fail with the following message:
> Fatal: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0000 (NFS/RAID mirror down ?)

Well, this is coherent, isn't it?

> After running a few tests it appears lilo will only stop complaining
> once the original raid1 set is restored _and_ synchronized.
[...]
> Any idea? Thanks in advance,

Well, a question at first :)
Why do you need to run lilo after you failed one of the mirrors?

Anyways - I'm running lilo on degraded arrays and it works
very well.
Thus, I presume, it works for you too, once you remove the
failed mirror from the array.


regards,
   Mario
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