Re: [cobalt-developers] problems booting the redhat 7.3 kernel on a raq3

["John P. Looney" <valen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:36:29AM -0400, Gerald Waugh mentioned:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, John P. Looney wrote:
> >  Is there any way of working around the shortcomings of the PROM to get
> > RAID1 working properly ?
> Did you set the partition ids to 0xFD?

 Yes. RAID does work to an extent - in that when I boot up, / is md1
so that works. 

 However, as far as I can tell, the prom is loading the kernel from hda2,
and using that as / early in the boot process (before init is run). So, md
finds md1 and makes that the system root disk, and perhaps switches over.

 The end result is that the system does boot up with MD, but afterwards I
cannot add hda2 to md1, as the second part of the mirror, as it's "in
use".

 My LILO config file is:

[root@midir root]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
lba32
# Serial won't work at full speed in lilo
#serial=0,1152008n1
boot=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
  label=linux
  root=/dev/md1
  initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img  
  read-on

 Quite simple. However, though I've run 'lilo', and saw no errors, I don't
see any mention of lilo in the console output, at boot.

John