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If I'm understanding you right I think it sounds like the boot<br>
loader didnt get transferred to the raid partition. The boot loader<br>
is *usually* installed on the MBR of the boot drive (/dev/hda if
its<br>
IDE). Without it, linux wont load. I dont think running lilo after<br>
changing the boot drive will install the boot loader to the MBR<br>
of the other drive. So when you pull your BusTek drive out you<br>
lose your boot loader on that drive's MBR and therefore it cant<br>
boot cause it doesnt exist on the new drive.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately I dont know how to fix this (assuming this is your<br>
problem). I just know that I've had problems trying to boot off<br>
a drive that wasnt the orginal boot drive I installed to. My
solution<br>
was to never create a situation where I had that problem. :)<br>
<br>
Beyond that, I'm clueless. :)<br>
<br>
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At 11:56 AM 11/20/00 -0600, you wrote:<br>
>OK, I bought myself a Mylex Acceleraid 170 Raid, and a couple
of<br>
>10k u160 36Mb drives and set up a RAID 1 config. I wanted to<br>
>be able to run the same kernel I was running on other machines<br>
>(2.2.17) and I wasn't able to find a distro that would install<br>
>directly to the RAID array, so I installed to a SCSI drive<br>
>attached to a BusTek KT958. After the install I fdisked the<br>
>RAID array, made appropriate filesystems, copied the
filesystems<br>
>from the BusTek SCSI drive to the RAID array, modified lilo to<br>
>boot from the RAID array, shut the machine off, yanked the
power<br>
>from the drive connected to the BusTek, rebooted and voila',<br>
>I booted from the RAID array.<br>
><br>
>I was feeling pretty smug until I removed the BusTek card<br>
>from the PCI bus (which wasn't connected to any drives).<br>
>When I did this and powered up, the LILO prompt never appeared -
<br>
>just a bunch of linefeeds (at least thats how it appeared - the<br>
>cursor walked to the bottom of the screen, and then the<br>
>Mainboard BIOS messages scrolled off the top).<br>
><br>
>Bemused I put the BusTek card back on the PCI slot (again,<br>
>nothing attached), powered up, and I booted from the RAID<br>
>array without problem.<br>
><br>
>Too weird for my besotted brain - anyone have any thoughts?<br>
>Kent<br>
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