Re: HELP - need more documentation on using partitioned (mdp-type) md devices

On Monday November 4, listacct1@lvwnet.com wrote:

If anybody (Neil?) can offer some advice on how to get LILO to write a 
boot sector to the RAID1 array pair, it would be greatly appreciated.  I 
am so close to getting this working!!!

First, lilo thinks it knows what "/dev/md*" means, and gets all
confused when it turns out to be different.
So create device names that *don't* start /dev/md.
e.g.
   /dev/MDa == 60,0
   /dev/MDa1 == 60,1
   etc

Second, you have to tell lilo about the geometry of /dev/MD*, because
it doesn't know:

   boot=/dev/MDa
   disk=/dev/MDa
     bios=0x80
     sectors=63
     heads=255
     cylinders=1024
     partitions=/dev/MDa1
      start=63

The "start" is very important.  check what the start sector of MDa1
is, and use that.

Lilo should then work.

NeilBrown