Glenn Hancock wrote: <SNIP>
I tried to go into rescue mode but as usual SUSE doesn't explain how to do anything in rescue mode so now i"m not able to figure out how to mount my / partition to check my lillo settings or to do anything else for that matter.
I can't believe that a task that is so simple for everyone else could be this difficult. Actually setting up the RAID proved very simple but the testing of the RAID is where the problems are coming in. I'm beginning to wonder how many people out there are running RAID and never tested what would actually happen if a drive died.
Any help as usual is appreciated but still in the (or worse) fix...
cybercrypt
When you get to the login prompt in the rescue system just type root and hit enter. Next you need to create a directory to mount your existing system. mkdir /mnt/temp Then mount your system there. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/temp Of course, the above partition may not be the same as yours. Just change it if needed. you can use fdisk to check out your partitions. fdisk /dev/hda The use the "p" command to list the available partitions and the "q" command to exit. If you have a separate boot partition you will need to mount it as well. mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/temp/boot Then do a chroot. chroot /mnt/temp Now check the settings in /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, /etc/raidtab and run lilo. Hopefully this will get you back up and running. Now ... if it were me ... I would switch to grub if you can get your system back up. Once the system is up, install the grub software and then install grub on both MBRs like this: grub Grub>device (hd0) /dev/hda Grub>root (hd0,0) and then: Grub>setup (hd0) Grub>device (hd0) /dev/hdb Grub>root (hd0,0) and then: Grub>setup (hd0) quit Now that grub is on both drives just add an extra entry in menu.1st like this: title Linux [MIRROR] kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/md2 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/md3 showopts initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd This is just a copy of whatever you have for linux already but changing the drive number in parenthesis. Depending on how your motherboard's BIOS handles a failed drive, you may or may not need the second entry to boot. HTH, Louis