Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:57:44 +0200 | From | Ookhoi <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.12 cannot find root device on raid |
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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.
I always let lilo write to the first and the second disk itself, and I do not use any kernel parameters for sw raid. Is writing to the disks instead of writing to /dev/md0 the wrong way? It works for me.
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