[NTLUG:Discuss] hard drive madness

[Jay Urish]

George Lass wrote:
> Did you use the -r option  when you ran lilo?
> George
> 

Yes. That was to specify the real root so lilo can regen the map file 
and messages file?


> --- On Wed, 9/16/09, Jay Urish <jay at unixwolf.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Jay Urish <jay at unixwolf.net>
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] hard drive madness
> To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 4:52 PM
> 
> Ok, this is chapping my hyde.
> 
> My K9 server has a 4 disk RAID array. When its the only "drive" in the 
> system, Mandriva gives it /dex/sda
> 
> If I add  SATA hard drive, the new drive gets dev/sda and the bootable 
> RAID gets pushed to /dev/sdb
> 
> This renders the system unbootable. I can fire up a rescue CD, mount my 
> partition under /mnt and go edit lilo.conf and fstab to reflect the 
> letter change but the system still wont boot. I did run lilo after the 
> change but it still seems like its trying to talk to /dev/sda after the 
> change.
> 
> 
> Am I missing a file somewhere? Can I make the RAID array on the 3ware 
> controller stay on /dev/sda while all new drives go higher 
> /dev/sdb,sdc,sdd etc?
> 
> 
> 
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