Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-08 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:05:20 -, "Miquel van Smoorenburg" writes: >>>I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. > >>Try this: >> >>http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/raid/ > >From what I gather, I nee

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-07 Thread Robert Waldner
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:05:20 -, "Miquel van Smoorenburg" writes: >>I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. >Try this: > >http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/raid/ From what I gather, I need to tell LILO about the exact geometry not only of the disk, but of the partiti

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've got an installed Debian system which I want to move to RAID-1. Try this: http://www.miquels.cistron.nl/raid/ Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-06 Thread Debian User
Hi Robert, I just succesfully completed a 3-day crusade against my scsi chain. At the end it turns out all I needed was a black goat and some incense. Your problem sounds similar too mine, boot stops right before or during mounting the / fs , with messages it cannot read from the disk from vario

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 22:59:29 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: >> Thanks, but I'm not using an initrd kernel in this case. >Sorry, I don't have any other thoughts for you then. I'm not sure how >that works... Without an initrd kernel, and booting from the initrd, >GRUB/LILO would have to hand off the bo

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-05 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 5, 2004, at 3:56 AM, Robert Waldner wrote: Thanks, but I'm not using an initrd kernel in this case. Sorry, I don't have any other thoughts for you then. I'm not sure how that works... Without an initrd kernel, and booting from the initrd, GRUB/LILO would have to hand off the boot to a ker

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-05 Thread Robert Waldner
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:05:00 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: >>> However, when I boot with "Linux root=/dev/md3 ext3" it can't find a >>> valid ext3/ext2/reiserfs superblock on md(9,3). There's a couple lines >>> right before that that tell me that md is autodetecting RAID arrays >>> (can't copy/pas

Re: moving an installed Debian system onto RAID-1

2004-07-02 Thread Nate Duehr
Robert Waldner wrote: However, when I boot with "Linux root=/dev/md3 ext3" it can't find a valid ext3/ext2/reiserfs superblock on md(9,3). There's a couple lines right before that that tell me that md is autodetecting RAID arrays (can't copy/paste that for obvious reasons). Any hints/pointer