Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2731 mails)

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 17:39, Tom Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:26, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> <snip>

> > 
> > No.  You have to install the new blank drive to port 0 of the 3ware
> > card.
> > 
> > Then you can dd from /dev/hda to /dev/sda
> 
> I take it sda is my new drive?
> 
The 3ware card pretends to be a scsi controller.

So Linux names the new drive sda  (ie. The first scsi drive)

> > 
> > Then you have to fix your grub / lilo config on /dev/sda
> > 
> > Then fix /etc/fstab on /dev/sda.
> > 
> > Then powerdown and remove the /dev/hda drive.
> > 
> > Try booting and verify that everything is working on the single /dev/sda
> > drive.
> > 
> > Then power down and install the old drive on port 1.
> > 
> > Then go into the 3ware bios and create your mirror.
> > 
> > The 3ware card will duplicate your port 0 drive to port 1.
> > 
> > Note that a drive that works connected to a 3ware card will NOT work
> > directly connected to a normal IDE controller.  The 3ware card
> > apparently uses a couple of the drive sectors for its own use.
> > 
> > The hard part is fixing the config files on /dev/sda but if you know
> > what your doing it only takes a couple of minutes to do.
> 
> 
> I have no idea what I'm doing...can't you tell? ;-) 
> 

If you really don't know what your doing, it may be easier to install
SuSE from scratch on the new drive, then just copy over the appropriate
data files.  If you have not installed a bunch of extra packages, that
is really not that hard.

> What config files should I look at?
> 

/etc/fstab for sure, but you have to edit the one on the copy, not your
original.  That means mounting the root partition on /dev/sda as /mount,
then editing /mount/etc/fstab.

Then you also have to make sure you boot from the correct root device.

This is done in the grub or lilo setup.  Which one are you using?

I don't remember exactly how I fixed this bootup issue but it was not
too difficult.

BTW, I'm leaving for the day, so hopefully someone else can help you
with these 2 issues.  I won't be back online until Tues.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer