Gentoo Archives: gentoo-sparc

From: Michael Owen <mowen@××××××.com>
To: "'gentoo-sparc@l.g.o'" <gentoo-sparc@l.g.o>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-sparc] mirrored root silo problems
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:24:13
Message-Id: 7A08ACBD2F401A4196C29C55B819782A0D6D8230@pof0099p06.corp.costco.com
1 > Also I do not have a separate /boot partition.
2 >
3
4 IIRC, this is the problem. I'm doing mirroring on a Blade 100, and I had to
5 setup my disks with a standalone /boot partition, and it wouldn't work any
6 other way.
7
8 (IDE, but it should work the same for SCSI)
9
10 mowen-sparc ~ # fdisk -l /dev/hd[ac]
11
12 Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 58851 cylinders
13 Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes
14
15 Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
16 /dev/hda1 u 0 34 69360 83 Linux native
17 /dev/hda2 34 524 999600 82 Linux swap
18 /dev/hda3 0 58851 120056040 5 Whole disk
19 /dev/hda4 524 58851 118987080 fd Linux raid autodetect
20
21 Disk /dev/hdc (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 255 sectors, 58851 cylinders
22 Units = cylinders of 4080 * 512 bytes
23
24 Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
25 /dev/hdc2 u 0 524 1068960 3 SunOS swap
26 /dev/hdc3 0 58851 120056040 5 Whole disk
27 /dev/hdc4 524 58851 118987080 fd Linux raid autodetect
28
29 mowen-sparc ~ # cat /boot/silo.conf
30 partition = 1
31 root = /dev/md0
32 timeout = 50
33 read-only
34 default=2.6.5
35 append=" md=0,/dev/hda4,/dev/hdc4 "
36 image = /kernel-2.6.5
37 label = 2.6.5
38
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40 Mike
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