It took a little bit of experimenting, but the basic steps you laid out worked. Success!
For anyone else who might want to try this, I found I had to do two things differently: 1. I had to use mkraid instead of raidstart to get the RAID devices working on /dev/hdc. 2. After copying root and /boot over to the /dev/md1 and /dev/md0 and following the steps in the howto, I couldn't get the system to boot on the RAID -- it kept booting on /dev/hda. So, after making sure all of root and boot was on the RAID devices, and updating the /etc/fstab and Lilo on the RAID devices, on reboot, at the Lilo boot prompt, I said "root=/dev/md1" and that worked -- into the RAID device I went. Then I followed the other steps of adding the /dev/hda partitions. Thanks for the help. Richard --- Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 04:28:46PM -0800, Richard > Weil wrote: > > Thanks, this is great. A couple of follow-up > > questions: > > > > 1. How do I get to single user mode without > rebooting? > > (I know I should already know this.) > > init 1 > > > 2. Do I need to do anything special to copy the > > partitions from /dev/hdaX to /dev/mdY? Once I'm in > > single user mode can I just "cp -R /dev/hdaX > > /dev/mdY"? > > You definitely do _not_ want to just run cp -r; that > would destroy > all of your file ownership and permission settings. > cp -a is better, > since it preserves those, but I'm not sure how well > it handles links > and device files. Not well, I suspect. > > > - create /mnt/newroot > > > > - then: > > > > cd / > > find . -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt/newroot > > This is a much saner option. Personally, I mount > the device directly > on /mnt, then use: > > find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /mnt > > If the other version came from the HOWTO, I suppose > it should work, > but it could have problems with filenames containing > spaces or > certain other odd characters (prevented by the > -print0 / -0). The -d > on cpio ensures that leading directories will be > created, which is > mostly just paranoia in this case, and -v is the > ever-popular verbose > flag, because I like to see what it's doing. > > -- > When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, > the terrorists > have already won. - reverius > > Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. > - Tom Swiss > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
