Re: help with bootable raid (How to add raidautorun line to linuxrc?)

2002-12-12 Thread Bill Dossett
well... I thought I was in the clear, but even though I had a valid raidtab when I did mkinitrd, it still didn't put the raidautorun line in my linuxrc... so I guess that's a bug? I looked at the script and it looks like it should... Don't know if anyone can confirm or not that this is working, I

Re: help with bootable raid (How to add raidautorun line to linuxrc?)

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Dossett
hmmm, ok, didn't realize initially that mkinitrd was a script.. and it needs up-to-date raidtab in order to work correctly with softare raid... guess that will fix it... sorry for waste of bandwidth. thanks Bill Bill Dossett wrote: Hi, Thanks for this... it has gotten me about 99% of the way

Re: help with bootable raid (How to add raidautorun line to linuxrc?)

2002-12-11 Thread Bill Dossett
Hi, Thanks for this... it has gotten me about 99% of the way there, however. I have created an initrd and it has the raid module in it, however, I am still missing one line in my linuxrc and I don't know how to get mkinitrd to put the line in as there doesn't seem to be any option for it in mkini

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Peery
Bill Dossett wrote: Does anyone from redhat ever hang out on these lists? Yes, they do--but you'll find them more frequently on the lists for new releases (psyche-list right now) than on the main redhat-list. Remember that most of the time that the good people at Redhat spend replying to t

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-10 Thread Bill Dossett
Ben Russo wrote: Well, I guess that might be a bug, open a bug in RedHat's Bugzilla, you might get a free T-shirt out of it. ok.. I haven't done that before, some morning around 4am when I have some time to myself, might give it a try ;-) But I think that their answer will be that softwa

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-10 Thread Ben Russo
> > So... why, then, does the Redhat install default to grub, when I am > doing a bootable software raid install? Seems a bit silly to load up a > system that won't work... with no suggestions etc on how to fix it. > Well, I guess that might be a bug, open a bug in RedHat's Bugzilla, you mig

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-10 Thread Bill Dossett
Sorry if I sounded a little aggressive here... it was three days of frustration and then someone pointing me at promise disk controllers and I was going way way way down the wrong route. Anyway, I think most of what you have said will help... but... Samuel Flory wrote: Bill Dossett wrote: s

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-09 Thread Samuel Flory
Bill Dossett wrote: Hi, Does anyone from redhat ever hang out on these lists? I REALLY, need to figure out how the hell they do bootable software RAID as modules Is this some form of mystic secret that redhat don't want us to know? Or doesn't anyone from Redhat read these lists? I am try

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Russo
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 08:00, Bill Dossett wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone from redhat ever hang out on these lists? > Yeah there are many RedHat people who read the list. This is visible by looking at all the online archives and seeing the from addresses that end with "@redhat.com" I have a feeling

help with bootable raid

2002-12-09 Thread Bill Dossett
Hi, Does anyone from redhat ever hang out on these lists? I REALLY, need to figure out how the hell they do bootable software RAID as modules Is this some form of mystic secret that redhat don't want us to know? Or doesn't anyone from Redhat read these lists? I am trying to convert a syste