Hello. I've stucked with this scenario. I've read the howtos and the documentation 10-15 times, but it did not help :(
All i wanna do (is have some fun), to create a mirror disk system (raid1), so, if one of the disks fail, the other can easily (and _automatically_) boot up. the config is: two PIII 800, 512 megabytes of memory, abit vp6 board, and 2 40 Gb quantum disks (unfortunatelly, this is not my machine:)) I did the following steps (as described in the root+boot+raid howto): created partitions: hda1: 15 Mb for boot (partition type linux native) hda2: 128 Mb for swap (swap) hda3: the remaining space (linux native) hdc is just the same. installed a fresh system on hda3. i got the kernel (2.2.18), and the raid patch for 2.2.18. after some pretty compiling (raid-1 is in the kernel), i rebooted the host. created the /etc/raidtab file: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 chunk-size 32 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 device /dev/hdc3 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hda3 failed-disk 1 modified the partition type for hdc3 to linux raid autodetect (`fd' in fdisk) i typed to command line: mkraid /dev/md0 mke2fs /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0 /mnt ok, i succesfully created a filesys on /dev/md0. now, i copied all of my files (except /proc and /mnt) to the newly mounted location to /mnt. unmounted the devices, then umounted /boot also, and did a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdc blocks=512 count=1 dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1 (to copy the /boot partition to hdc1, so, the system could boot from hdc) ok then. Now what? the doc says, reboot. but if i reboot, nothing happens. thanks for any help, Daniel
