Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.4.12 cannot find root device on raid | From | (bill davidsen) | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2001 18:02:53 GMT |
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In article <15319.38517.663820.504760@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>, Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: | On Tuesday October 23, davidsen@prodigy.com wrote: | > | > The line you provide doesn't look anything like the two forms in the | > md.txt you mention. Or rather it looks like a blending, but neither of | > them is md0= in form. I have to look at the code to see which is | > correct, possibly yours, since the | > append = "md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1" | > line doesn't seem to work :-( | | Odd ... I use lines just like that. e.g.: | append="md=0,/dev/hda1,/dev/hde1,/dev/hdg1" | | and it works just fine. What do you get in the way of error messages?
None - the system simply exits the BIOS, reads the first drive once and cold boots. The drive is okay, I can read both copies of the mirror end to end without error after booting from floppy. Lilo claims it writes to the md0 device, but boot fails.
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