From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 95) Description of problem: Installed new drive in Raid system. Did raidhotadd to mirror data. cat /proc/mdstat shows correct status Will not boot on new raid drive. lilo -v shows no response. lilo -v -q shows no response. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.lilo 2.reboot system 3.will not boot. Have to boot from floppy. Additional info:
What does your /etc/lilo.conf look like?
prompt timeout=50 default=linux boot=/dev/md0 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message linear image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.7.x label=linux.2 root=/dev/md2 append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-27.7.x.img image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-13.7 label=linux.1 root=/dev/md2 append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-13.7.img image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.7 label=linux root=/dev/md2 append="hdd=ide-scsi" read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.7.img
And how does lilo -v fail?
[root@server2 root]# lilo -v LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger 'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman [root@server2 root]# [root@server2 root]# fdisk /dev/hde The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 238216. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 238216 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 41 20632+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hde2 42 233692 117760104 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hde3 233693 234732 524160 fd Linux raid autodetect Command (m for help):
What other drives do you have in your system?
There are two 120 GB identical drives hde hdg
Grub currently provides this functionality, as of FC4t1. Closing.