Re: Can't boot from /dev/md0 (RAID-1)

Juri Haberland
2002-06-30T12:42:22Z

In article <200206301419.26254.roy@karlsbakk.net> you wrote:
> hi
>
> I hope this is not OT - didn't find any LILO mailing list. after trying
> virtually everything - can anyone help me with a tip?
>
> Running 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, RedHat 7.3 (LILO version 21.4-4), I have root on
> /dev/md0 on RAID-1 on /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb1. I've tried the howto at
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-3.html#ss3.1, but it still
> doesn't help me. lilo just tells me "L 99 99 99 99 ..." some half a page, and
> then stops.I'm trying. All the time it prints this, it seems to be searching
> the floppy for some reason.
>
> The lilo.conf suggested by the above HOWTO, is this
>
> # lilo.conf.hda - primary ide master
> disk=/dev/md0
> bios=0x80
> sectors=63
> heads=16
> cylinders=39770
> partition=/dev/md1
> start=63
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
>
> image=/boot/bzImage
> root=/dev/md0
> read-only
> label=LinuxRaid

Hi,
I had this once and resolved it with adding a "default" line to the
lilo.conf:
default = LinuxRaid

Also have boot=/dev/md0, not boot=/dev/hda.

Cheers,
Juri

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Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>