I hope this is the final stage in configuring this machine as a RAID1 mirrored, three ethernet port firewall ... but I'm not quite there yet.
I've followed the guide at: http://www.cs.montana.edu/faq/faqw.admin.py?query=Convert+Root+System+ to+Software+Raid&querytype=simple&casefold=yes&req=search which had turned up on a debian list search to try to set up the RAID1 mirror of the boot/root drive. I installed to /dev/hdb1 (/dev/hda is the CDROM and perhaps I should have changed that first). Loaded 2.2.20, got 2.4.19 sources, compiled RAID1 support into the kernel (still can't get rid of one complaint about a missing character set module but don't think that's causing any real problems), made the identical /dev/hdc1 into a somewhat smaller linux autodetect RAID format partition, mounted it as 2nd drive in a RAID1 drive using: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-disks=2 missing /dev/hdc1 which worked fine, mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdc1, mount it to /mnt1, cp -ax / /mnt, tweak /etc/fstab ... /dev/md0 mounts fine, tweak lilo conf to boot from /dev/md0, reboot -- fine, finally come to add /dev/hdb1 into the array after resetting the partition type to autodetect RAID ... .. no go, system complains that /dev/hdb1 is mounted or that an inode is active: md: can not impport hdb1, has active inodes! md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 I assume that's because the boot is still from /dev/hdb but if so, how come the howto says this should work. Seems that nothing I do can shift this and if I set the partition back to linux I find I can't mount the drive despite rebooting as I get: mount: /dev/hdb1 already mounted or /mnt1 busy /mnt1 isn't busy (I can create a completely new mount point: no difference) and mount shows that /dev/hdb1 isn't mounted. I've tried all sorts of tweaking with lilo.conf to remove any calls to /dev/hdb but either these don't change anything, or else lilo complains that it can't install to the target (e.g. /dev/md0). As usual, I've read through the docs and man pages and done some searching around but can't find any explanations. Help! Chris PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
