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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lilo and SW-RAID-boot-partition
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:32:45
Message-Id: 45E93EED.4070807@paradise.net.nz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] lilo and SW-RAID-boot-partition by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
2 > Greets, gentoo-users.
3 >
4 > I have a lilo-related problem and can't find a solution on the net, so I
5 > ask you for ideas.
6 >
7 > This box should boot from SW-RAID-1, and it has also already done that.
8 > After editing a label inside lilo.conf I issued "lilo" and got this:
9 >
10
11 > # /etc/lilo.conf
12 >
13 > menu-scheme=Wb:kw:Wb:Wb
14 > lba32
15 >
16 > boot=/dev/md1
17 > raid-extra-boot="/dev/hda,/dev/hdc"
18 > change-rules
19 > reset
20 > read-only
21 > default=Gentoo
22 > timeout=5
23 >
24 > #image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6
25 > #label=2.6.18-r6
26 > #vga=0x314
27 > #initrd=/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r6
28 >
29 > image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
30 > label=Gentoo
31 > vga=0x314
32 > initrd=/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
33 >
34
35 > # cat /etc/fstab
36 >
37 > /dev/md1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
38 > /dev/md3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
39 > /dev/md2 none swap sw 0 0
40 > /dev/md4 /mnt/data ext3 noatime 0 1
41 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
42 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
43 > shm /dev/shm tmpfs
44 > nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
45 >
46
47 I think you might need a root=/dev/md3 inside the specification for
48 'Gentoo':
49
50 image=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
51 label=Gentoo
52 vga=0x314
53 initrd=/boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
54 root=/dev/md3
55
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