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Author: karl
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] defective RAID
Hendrik Boom:
...
> > If you have /boot on a raid-mirror on all your disks (pref. as first
> > partition) there is no problem making lilo work. Since then it
> > doesn't matter which disk it is booting from, it will load the kernel
> > and possible an initrd/initramfs if you want it to.
>
> Except that the raid-mirror has been missing for some time, and the
> two copies of /boot are no longer the same. Reattaching it would
> yield two very similar file systems and lilo will thus have a choice
> between two different places to boot from. If the two copies of the
> RAID were properly sync'd up you would be right -- there would be no
> problem.

...

Boot with the disk with the newest version of /boot, connect/power up
your disk with the older version of /boot, then add the old partition
to your md-raid mirror. The "old" partition will be automatically
updated. Didn't that work ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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