Jason DeStefano wrote: > > If I'm understanding you right I think it sounds like the boot > loader didnt get transferred to the raid partition. The boot loader > is *usually* installed on the MBR of the boot drive (/dev/hda if its > IDE). Without it, linux wont load. I dont think running lilo after > changing the boot drive will install the boot loader to the MBR > of the other drive. So when you pull your BusTek drive out you > lose your boot loader on that drive's MBR and therefore it cant > boot cause it doesnt exist on the new drive. Thanks for the reply. I had already written the MBR on the RAID, and the RAID drive boots with no other *drives* in the system. What the RAID drive won't do is boot without the BusTek card in the system. Note that the BusTek card doesn't have any drives attached to it, it is just in there for no reason (other than the fact that it magically makes the RAID array boot...). Oh, to get lilo to write to any drive, change the directive boot=/dev/sda to whatever drive you want the MBR written to. (boot=/dev/sdb, etc...) > > Unfortunately I dont know how to fix this (assuming this is your > problem). I just know that I've had problems trying to boot off > a drive that wasnt the orginal boot drive I installed to. My solution > was to never create a situation where I had that problem. :) > > Beyond that, I'm clueless. :) Hey, that's the way it oughta be... Kent > > At 11:56 AM 11/20/00 -0600, you wrote: > >OK, I bought myself a Mylex Acceleraid 170 Raid, and a couple of > >10k u160 36Mb drives and set up a RAID 1 config. I wanted to > >be able to run the same kernel I was running on other machines > >(2.2.17) and I wasn't able to find a distro that would install > >directly to the RAID array, so I installed to a SCSI drive > >attached to a BusTek KT958. After the install I fdisked the > >RAID array, made appropriate filesystems, copied the filesystems > >from the BusTek SCSI drive to the RAID array, modified lilo to > >boot from the RAID array, shut the machine off, yanked the power > >from the drive connected to the BusTek, rebooted and voila', > >I booted from the RAID array. > > > >I was feeling pretty smug until I removed the BusTek card > >from the PCI bus (which wasn't connected to any drives). > >When I did this and powered up, the LILO prompt never appeared - > >just a bunch of linefeeds (at least thats how it appeared - the > >cursor walked to the bottom of the screen, and then the > >Mainboard BIOS messages scrolled off the top). > > > >Bemused I put the BusTek card back on the PCI slot (again, > >nothing attached), powered up, and I booted from the RAID > >array without problem. > > > >Too weird for my besotted brain - anyone have any thoughts? > >Kent > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-list mailing list > >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at lists.real-time.com https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Kent Schumacher Structural Wood Corporation 4000 Labore Rd. St. Paul, MN 55110 Phone: (651) 426-8111 Fax: (651) 426-6859 e-mail: kent at structural-wood.com