Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing - raidtools

2003-10-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hi Alvin, > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:50:08PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > i assume that you have.. > > - software raid1 > > - "FD" as your partition type > > - lilo.conf or grub or other pointing to the /dev/mdxx devices >

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

2003-10-06 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi Alvin, On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:50:08PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > i assume that you have.. > - software raid1 > - "FD" as your partition type > - lilo.conf or grub or other pointing to the /dev/mdxx devices > for booting > - raid is built into the kernel .. not

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

2003-10-05 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:11:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > soemthing whacky if you have to manually add the disk back in > > with mdadm ... it thinks its brand new virgin disk ?? vs just needing > > to have it's new files sync'd to the disk tha

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

2003-10-05 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:11:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > soemthing whacky if you have to manually add the disk back in > with mdadm ... it thinks its brand new virgin disk ?? vs just needing > to have it's new files sync'd to the disk that just came online Somebody just told me that it is n

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

2003-10-05 Thread Rudy Gevaert
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:11:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > when you disconnected the disks ... how exactly did you do it > to simulate the ddisk failure .. I did first a poweroff and then > - did you pull the power cord or pull the ide cable off pulled both (ide + power) cords off. >

Re: raid1 and lilo second disk doesn't boot - testing

2003-10-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rudy On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > > - it's a good test you're doing to disconnect sda > > to see if its boots .. also repeat with a disconnected sdb > > - and verify that written data to one disks > > is sync'd to the other disk when its "reconnected" > > It boo