Hello, Everyone,
I was a long-time KnoppMyth user (~R5A30-R5F27) while on analog cable in a previous town.
Once my wife and I relocated after her college graduation, we figured we'd just use the local cable company's DVR setup, and simply things a bit. My KnoppMyth box was disassembled and the drives were scheduled to be used in a new server... however...
Our local cable provider's digital DVR boxes have been exceptionally problematic. I mean, at least 2-3 reboots per day, and bizarre "out of space" errors when only 30% of the capacity has been utilized. We've tried some replacements but, well, it's still quite unusable
That being said, I've reassembled my P4/3.0 box to its former glory, but the drives were wiped so I'm starting over. So far so good.
As we're now on digital cable, and will need to use the vendor-provided settop boxes, I've purchased three IR blasters from liebtech, and also have re-setup something along the original lines of my previous software RAID config:
Three (3) Seagate 7200.10 320GB drives;
/dev/sda1 = 256MB, part of raid1 array for /dev/md0 (/boot)
/dev/sda2 = 2GB, part of raid5 array for /dev/md1 (swap)
/dev/sda3 = 7.5GB, part of raid5 array for /dev/md2 (/)
/dev/sda4 = remainder, part of raid5 array for /dev/md3 (/myth)
/dev/sdb1 = 256MB, part of raid1 array for /dev/md0 (/boot)
/dev/sdb2 = 2GB, part of raid5 array for /dev/md1 (swap)
/dev/sdb3 = 7.5GB, part of raid5 array for /dev/md2 (/)
/dev/sdb4 = remainder, part of raid5 array for /dev/md3 (/myth)
/dev/sdc1 = 256MB, part of raid1 array [spare] for /dev/md0 (/boot)
/dev/sdc2 = 2GB, part of raid5 array for /dev/md1 (swap)
/dev/sdc3 = 7.5GB, part of raid5 array for /dev/md2 (/)
/dev/sdc4 = remainder, part of raid5 array for /dev/md3 (/myth)
As before, I set up the software RAID arrays using an ubuntu alternate install CD, and allowed the new md devices to sync completely prior to rebooting and attempting to install KnoppMyth.
I installed KnoppMyth R5.5 to /dev/md2, as a custom install. Prior to rebooting I mounted /dev/md0 to /mnt/boot and copied the contents of the /mnt/hdinstall/boot directory over to it.
I modified the /mnt/hdinstall/etc/fstab to reflect:
/dev/md0 /boot defaults
/dev/md3 /myth defaults
I've been using a lot of RedHat and CentOS boxes over the past year (beyond an Ubuntu laptop at work) so I'm rather rusty on LILO installation/usage.
What do I need to do to verify that:
--both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 are bootable (if needed, in case one fails?)
--system actually will boot correctly, utilizing /dev/md2 as / and /dev/md3 as /myth
At this point, when attempting to boot off the disks, I receive the following LILO error:
LILO 22.7.3 Loading Linux EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage
I'm a bit lost at this point. I know I had it working previously, but I've no clue what I did to make it work
Does anyone have any tips on how to proceed from here?
Again, I'm mainly just trying to verify I can boot from /dev/md0 for the /boot partition, with /dev/md1 as swap space, /dev/md2 as root, and /dev/md3 as /myth (xfs) .
Thanks in advance for any assistance!
strick