Re: Installer: problem installing onto LVM on RAID1

2017-04-09 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 09 April 2017 18:43:32 Ron Leach wrote: > While trying to install Debian 7.11 Why are you installing Wheezy? Lisi

Re: Installer: problem installing onto LVM on RAID1

2017-04-09 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 04/09/2017 08:43 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > List, good evening, > > I am trying to install Debian onto an LVM, and I want the LVM to use a > pair of disks in a RAID1 configuration. I'm having difficulty > instructing the partitioner to do this. > > I have a new, empty, machine with 2 x 3TB disks.

Re: Installer: problem installing onto LVM on RAID1

2017-04-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Ron, On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 06:43:32PM +0100, Ron Leach wrote: > What partitions - I think I mean logical volumes - might I be best > using for my installation, keeping in mind that I will need to extend > whatever logical volume houses the 'users-files'? I think you are making a conceptual e

Installer: problem installing onto LVM on RAID1

2017-04-09 Thread Ron Leach
List, good evening, I am trying to install Debian onto an LVM, and I want the LVM to use a pair of disks in a RAID1 configuration. I'm having difficulty instructing the partitioner to do this. I have a new, empty, machine with 2 x 3TB disks. This new machine is intended to replace our exis

Anyone encountered the same "Mount failed" error when installing Debian 7.5 with "dmraid=true" on RAID1 server?

2014-05-10 Thread 釋淨明
Dear all, I'm a newbie in using Debian, my first task (and a good chance to learn using debian) is to setup an email server with the following hardware: Intel S1200btlr board (Intel C204 chipset) with a Xeon E3-1230v2 CPU on it 2*1T disks, form a RAID1 by intel embeded server raid technology II (

Re: grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Am 05.12.2012 17:01, schrieb Tom H: >> >> Since you're using grub-legacy and might be using update-grub and the >> "DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" system, make sure that "groot" in >> "/etc/boot/menu.lst" is set to the right value. > > I ha

Re: grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Please CC me on reply, since I am not subscribed to the list, because my mailbox is quite limited. Am 05.12.2012 17:01, schrieb Tom H: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Marcus Blumhagen > wrote: >> just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running >> Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). >> [...]

Re: grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Please CC me on reply, since I am not subscribed to the list. I consider rude not to subscribe to a list asking for help - but that's just me... > just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running Debian 6.0 > (Squeeze).

grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
Please CC me on reply, since I am not subscribed to the list. Hello, just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Lacking access to any kind of console, I was quite clueless why it wouldn´t come up after what should have been a routine reboot. I have a

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:54:32 -0500 > Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jack Schneider >> wrote: >> > >> >  I think I found a significant glitch.. I appears that mdadm is >> >  confused.  I think it happened when I created

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-22 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:54:32 -0500 Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jack Schneider > wrote: > > > >  I think I found a significant glitch.. I appears that mdadm is > >  confused.  I think it happened when I created the /dev/md2 array > > from the new disks.  It looks like the meta

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > >  I think I found a significant glitch.. I appears that mdadm is >  confused.  I think it happened when I created the /dev/md2 array from >  the new disks.  It looks like the metadata 1.2 vs 0.90 configs is the >  culprit... > > Here's the

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-21 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:31:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > It booted to the correct grub menu then to Busy Box. I am thinking > > it goes to BB because it can't find /var and or /usr on the > > md1/sda5 LVM partition. > > Very likely. > > > I checked /proc/mdstat and lo &

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > It booted to the correct grub menu then to Busy Box. I am thinking it > goes to BB because it can't find /var and or /usr on the md1/sda5 LVM > partition. Very likely. > I checked /proc/mdstat and lo & behold there was md1:active > with correct partitions and md0: active a

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:19:11 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > > Both /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab show entries for /dev/md126.. > > > > What the ... ? > > After you modified thei files in the real filesystem, did you update > the initramfs? >

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > Both /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab show entries for /dev/md126.. > > What the ... ? After you modified thei files in the real filesystem, did you update the initramfs? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all an

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:43:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 > > > --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > > > mdadm --stop /dev/126 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 > > > --update=

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:43:16 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 > > > --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > > > mdadm --stop /dev/126 > > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 > > > --update=

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > mdadm --stop /dev/md125 > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 --update=super-minor /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > mdadm --stop /dev/126 > > mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 --update=super-minor /dev/sda5 /dev/sdc5 > > Bob, a small glitch. mdadm:/dev/sda1 exists

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:50:12 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the > > > > new disk array to the LVM volume group on the above

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the new > > > disk array to the LVM volume group on the above array? If so > > > then you are not done yet. The LVM volume group won

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Note that if you add new disk to the lvm root volume group then you > > also need to rebuild the initrd or your system won't be able to > > assemble the array at boot time and will fail to boot. (Saying that > > mostly for people who find this in the a

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:48:29 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote:> will be well.. > > I have my fingers crossed for you that it will all be okay. > > > I have not done the things you have suggested above. I'll wait for > > your response and then go!!! > > Plea

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But, and this is an important but, did you previously add the new disk > > array to the LVM volume group on the above array? If so then you are > > not done yet. The LVM volume group won't be able to assemble without > > the new disk. If you did then

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. 2nd Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:19:03 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:42:49 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack, > > > > With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last > > information in your mail and pastebins was critical good stuff) and > > I found this ol

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-17 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:42:49 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack, > > With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last > information in your mail and pastebins was critical good stuff) and > I found this old posting from you too: :-) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/200

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack, With your pastebin information and the mdstat information (that last information in your mail and pastebins was critical good stuff) and I found this old posting from you too: :-) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/10/msg00808.html With all of that I deduce the following: /dev/

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system. Corrections!!!!!

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > > > used or formatted.

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > > > used or formatted.

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-16 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 16:57:46 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > > > used or formatted.

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > >> > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > >> > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the ke

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Jack Schneider wrote: > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from > > > a live Ubun

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:45 -0700 > Bob Proulx wrote: >> Jack Schneider wrote: >> > >> > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was >> > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been >> > used or form

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: >> > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's >> > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the kernel >> > >> will change the mdX designation

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:16:37 -0500 > Tom H wrote: >> >> > > [BIG SNIP] > >> >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's >> >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the kernel >> >> will change the mdX

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:45 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from > > a live U

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:06:11 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > > > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the > > > >> kernel will change the mdX desig

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Jack Schneider wrote: > > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the kernel > > >> will change the mdX designations. > > >> > > >> Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your partitions. Wha

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:25:45 -0700 Bob Proulx wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from > > a live U

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-15 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:16:37 -0500 Tom H wrote: > >> > [BIG SNIP] > >> You might want to try configuring grub and fstab to use UUID's > >> instead of /dev/mdX.  That removes the possibility that the kernel > >> will change the mdX designations. > >> > >> Use blkid to find out the UUID's of your p

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500 > Rob Owens wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: >> > >> > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was >> > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: >> >> I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was >> until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been >> used or formatted. I configured a new arra

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:06:17 -0600 Jack Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500 > Rob Owens wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Jack Schneider wrote: > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a > live Ubuntu CD. That's where I screwed up... The end result was the > n

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-14 Thread Jack Schneider
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:43:53 -0500 Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > > used or formatted. I configured a

Re: Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-13 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:23:11AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: > > I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was > until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been > used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a > live Ubuntu CD. That's whe

Grub2 reinstall on raid1 system.

2011-01-13 Thread Jack Schneider
I have a raid1 based W/S running Debian Squeeze uptodate. (was until ~7 days ago) There are 4 drives, 2 of which had never been used or formatted. I configured a new array using Disk Utility from a live Ubuntu CD. That's where I screwed up... The end result was the names of the arrays were changed

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-20 Thread Matthew Glubb
Hi Alan, On 20 Jul 2010, at 12:52, Alan Chandler wrote: > Lets take this back to the list - not keep it between us - and I am > subscribed to the list so no need to copy me. Ah. Sorry. I didn't realise I had only mailed you directly. > I don't know. When I have had a problem before, I have ju

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 18/07/10 18:30, Matthew Glubb wrote: Hi Alan, Thanks very much for your reply. Lets take this back to the list - not keep it between us - and I am subscribed to the list so no need to copy me. On 17 Jul 2010, at 20:08, Alan Chandler wrote: You don't include the one piece of informati

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-17 Thread Gabor Heja
Hello, The four failures seem really high to me too. This might be a silly question but: have you checked/replaced the controller and cables yet? I had a machine with four disks and one of them picked randomly were reported as bad every few weeks (all of them connected to the motherboard). I rul

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Matthew Glubb put forth on 7/17/2010 3:11 AM: > Normally in the past when a disk has failed, I have dropped the offending > disk from the array, replaced the disk, booted, rebuilt the filesystem on the > new disk and re-synced the array. I've done this about four times with this > method. Once

Re: Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On 17/07/10 09:11, Matthew Glubb wrote: Hi All, I have a problem replacing a failed disk with a LVM volume on a RAID1 array. Normally in the past when a disk has failed, I have dropped the offending disk from the array, replaced the disk, booted, rebuilt the filesystem on the new disk and re-

Problem Replacing LVM on RAID1 Disk

2010-07-17 Thread Matthew Glubb
Hi All, I have a problem replacing a failed disk with a LVM volume on a RAID1 array. Normally in the past when a disk has failed, I have dropped the offending disk from the array, replaced the disk, booted, rebuilt the filesystem on the new disk and re-synced the array. I've done this about fou

Re: squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

2010-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 12:35:50 -0400 (EDT), Paul E Condon wrote: > For installing Squeeze, I think the business card CD is more useful > than the daily build. The business card CD has far less new stuff > burnt onto the media, only what is absolutely necessary to setting up > the local end of the link

Re: squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

2010-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
; bootloader to the mbr(s). Grub failed, both grub2 and legacy. lilo also > > would not install. > > > > I was installing via netboot and had this failure with both the > > 2010-02-11 netboot.tar.gz release for amd64 as well as the 2010-03-30 > > amd64 snapshot. >

Re: squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

2010-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
; > I was installing via netboot and had this failure with both the > 2010-02-11 netboot.tar.gz release for amd64 as well as the 2010-03-30 > amd64 snapshot. > > I finally got a running squeeze on raid1 by using lenny's d-i to install > lenny, then upgrading (following &#

squeeze d-i fails at grub install on raid1

2010-04-02 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
3-30 amd64 snapshot. I finally got a running squeeze on raid1 by using lenny's d-i to install lenny, then upgrading (following '/msg dpkg lenny->squeeze' instructions from #debian). This now works fully upgraded to grub2 and squeeze. I need to proceed with using that system rig

Re: lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread randall
Zhengquan Zhang wrote: Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after

lvm on raid1 for a backup server or not?

2009-05-05 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, I will build up a backup server which has 2x1T + 1x250G drives. the size of the one full backup will be about 400G. My initial plan was to install debian lenny on the 250G drive. leave 2x1T drive untouched and then make software raid1 on them after the installation. I hav

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-23 Thread José Pablo Fernández
On Friday 23 February 2007 16:12, José Pablo Fernández wrote: > So, nobody knows what might be going on here? Nevermind, it is now working (although I don't know what solved it, I hate that). -- José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-23 Thread José Pablo Fernández
So, nobody knows what might be going on here? On Wednesday 21 February 2007 01:15, José Pablo Fernández wrote: > I have a raid1 setup with three partitions: > > md0, mounted on /, composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 > md1, mounted on swap, composed of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 > md2, mounted on swap

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-21 Thread José Pablo Fernández
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:43, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1836 +0100]: > > > Have a look at what /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf outputs. > > > > There's no such file. I used apt-file to search for it and I've only got: > > Ah, you are s

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1836 +0100]: > > > Those lines are the output of a command, mdadm --detail --scan > > > > So? :) > > I can't modify the output of a command (unless I modify the sources of the > command, of course). mdadm --detail is not what you u

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-21 Thread José Pablo Fernández
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 14:26, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1812 +0100]: > > Those lines are the output of a command, mdadm --detail --scan > > So? :) I can't modify the output of a command (unless I modify the sources of the com

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.1812 +0100]: > Those lines are the output of a command, mdadm --detail --scan So? :) Have a look at what /usr/share/mdadm/mkconf outputs. > The other set of similar lines which are the config in > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf are the only

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-21 Thread José Pablo Fernández
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 07:32, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.0515 +0100]: > > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] > >devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 > > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] > >devi

Re: Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach José Pablo Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.02.21.0515 +0100]: > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] >devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] >devices=/dev/sda1 > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=[...] >

Missing devices on raid1 setup

2007-02-20 Thread José Pablo Fernández
I have a raid1 setup with three partitions: md0, mounted on /, composed of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 md1, mounted on swap, composed of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2 md2, mounted on swap, composed of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 I am not sure how it was installed because it was done a long time ago, I don't e

LVM on raid1: looking to future, RFC

2006-12-04 Thread Douglas Tutty
Hello, My testing box is an amd64, 1 G ram with dual 80 GB Seagate SATA drives, running Etch. I'm new to the LVM/raid1 concept. Following advice I received here (or was it on amd64; no matter, its not amd64 specific), I currently have both disks partitioned the same: 1 small

Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay? c: d:

2004-08-18 Thread Will Trillich
On Tue, Aug 17 at 10:46PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > > > lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and > > > HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in > > > windows parlance), and

Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay? c: d:

2004-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya will > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > > > lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and > > HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in > > windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and second

Re: on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay?

2004-08-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya will On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > lemme check to make sure i grok the recommendation -- HDA and > HDB are primary and secondary on the first bus (C: and D: in > windows parlance), and HDC and HDD are primary and secondary on > the second bus (E: and F: in windows parlance).

on RAID1: is HDA+HDD okay?

2004-08-17 Thread Will Trillich
On Sun, Aug 15 at 09:53PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Will Trillich wrote: > > $ sfdisk -d > > # partition table of /dev/hda > > unit: sectors > > > > /dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 192717, Id=83, bootable > > /dev/hda2 : start= 192780, size= 1959930, Id=82 > > /dev/hda3

Question on raid1 root problems (fwd)

2003-02-03 Thread Mike Dresser
I've got a setup here for root software raid1, installed a few months ago. Running woody, on a pair of 40 gig IDE drives, installed as /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. I installed the raid1 root as per the documentation on tldp.org We had a power outage over the weekend, and when the system came back up, i

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-28 Thread Karoly VEGH
Thanks for the help, i solved it so: i had a spare partition-pair mirrored, i copied the / fs on it, told lilo that this new md will be the new root fs, and voila! thanks to all who helped. charlie -- Vegh Karoly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karoly since hda1 is NOT in your /dev/md0 ... you're stuck... -- once it all works... use /dev/hda and /dev/hdc instead -- remove all the extra (disk info) jibberish in your lilo.conf and raidtab but ... first, try building your raid manually...

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya karoly... hi & thx for the help, > did you try "raidsetfaulty" ? > raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 > raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 ~ # raidsetfaulty /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 ~ # raidhotremove /dev/md1 /dev/hda1 /dev/md1: can not hot-remove

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya karoly... did you try "raidsetfaulty" ? raidsetfaulty /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 raidhotremove /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 .. what does your lilo.conf look like ?? - does it have initrd.gz in it ?? - which kernel is in initrd.gz ?? thanx alvin On Fri, 17 May 2002,

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Alvin Oga wrote: > if you are trying to hotadd ... you need to hotremove it first... ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md1 : active raid1 hdb1[0] 4200896 blocks [2/1] [U_] md2 : active raid1 hda2[1] hdb2[0] 6297408 blocks [2/2]

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-17 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Take a close look at your boot messages. Your system most likely booted > off /dev/hda1, then mounted /dev/md1 as /. If so, it's still running > the kernel from hda1, which is the source of those active inodes. i booted from a floopy, docu for this w

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Karoly VEGH wrote: > in the log: > > md: trying to hot-add hda1 to md1 ... > md: can not import hda1, has active inodes! > md: error, md_import_device() returned -16 > > what am i supposed to do, to get rid of those ugly active inodes ? Take a close look

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i dont quite understand the problem... besides the typo like /dev/rooot if you are looking to "see" /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdb2 separately - you wont ... its been raided together if you are trying to hotadd ... you need to hotremove it first... and might even need to h

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-16 Thread Karoly VEGH
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >~ # ls -l /dev/rooot > >ls: /dev/rooot: No such file or directory >^^^ of course you are right, but: ~> ls -l /dev/root ls: /dev/root: No such file or directory ~> charlie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: / on raid1

2002-05-16 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Thu, 16 May 2002 14:21:35 +0200 (MEST), Karoly VEGH wrote: >~ # ls -l /dev/rooot >ls: /dev/rooot: No such file or directory ^^^ Well, THIS device you probably won't even find if your setup is right. :-) -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.

/ on raid1

2002-05-16 Thread Karoly VEGH
Hi, I have two disks (same size, same partitions) in raid1, but to the / fs i cannot add both hda's: /etc/raidtab: [..] # /usr mirror raiddev /dev/md2 raid-level 1 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks 0 chunk-size 32 persistent-superblock 1

Re: Boot on raid1 did it work for you ??

2001-01-23 Thread Knud Sørensen
Hi No, the /boot - directory is on my / partition. I will try you suggestion soon. Right now my main problem is that when I make a rescue from a floppy. I have to run fsck manually on /dev/md0 then after a reboot i have to run fsck again. It is like /dev/md0 is not properly unmounted ???

Re: Boot on raid1 did it work for you ??

2001-01-23 Thread Joerg Huber
Hi Knud, do you have your boot image on the raid disk? The image should reside in the /boot - directory and this directory has to be on a separate partition. Lilo cannot boot from a raid partition. The /boot partition could be very small, I choose 25 MB. That's enough for a lot of images. Hope t

Re: Boot on raid1 did it work for you ??

2001-01-22 Thread Knud Sørensen
Knud Sørensen wrote: > > I trying to make a system boot on a soft raid1 device. > > I have been following > http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.12 > method 2. > > If you have it working I would be happy for some help. > > I would like to see your lilo.conf, fstab, raidtab.

Boot on raid1 did it work for you ??

2001-01-22 Thread Knud Sørensen
I trying to make a system boot on a soft raid1 device. I have been following http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.12 method 2. If you have it working I would be happy for some help. I would like to see your lilo.conf, fstab, raidtab. On boot I get L 01 01 01 01 01 ... W