[CentOS] MIrrored drives won't boot after installation

Tue Apr 26 02:16:44 UTC 2005
Chris Mason <lists at masonc.com>

I don't get an option to use lilo during the install. How can you choose
lilo?

Chris Mason
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Gerald Waugh
> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 10:38 AM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] MIrrored drives won't boot after installation
> 
> On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 10:27 -0400, Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> > I have a p4 motherboard with 2 ide interfaces, I connect 2 40 GB
> > drives as hda and hdc, I install Centos 4 from a CDROM, and partition
> > the drives as 2 x raid partition each plus a swap partition on hda,
> > the make md0 and md1 to install /boot and / respectively. Install goes
> > well, everything looks great, go to reboot from drives, and all I get
> > is "grub" but no boot. I have tried this ten times, doesn't seem I can
> > get around it.
> >
> > I have to configure this server so that the drives are mirrored. I
> > have installed redhat 9 in this configuration without problems.
> With the help of Aleksandar Milivojevic I used the attached ks.cfg file
> (not sure if it will come through on this list).
> I used lilo not grub. Also working on a ks.cfg that uses LVM
> 
> Gerald