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>4. Array Configuration</H1
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>4.1. Building the Array</H2
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> Add the second hard drive to the card, and turn on your computer.
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Go into the card bios, and create a mirror array, selecting the appropriate source disk. Make sure you <EM
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>Create and Build</EM
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> the array.
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After that is done, follow the instructions of the next section.
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>4.2. Changing Configuration Files</H2
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> Choose "LinuxFromRaid" Option at LILO.
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> It should boot up without any errors. It will, however
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complain about swap. Ignore that, as we will fix it in a moment.
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> You may receive an error about incorrect module version, or a kernel mismatch. Please see the
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"troubleshooting" section about this.
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> After we have booted up on the new system, we must edit a few files:
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>/etc/lilo.conf</TT
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>/etc/fstab</TT
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>4.2.1. <TT
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> The parts in italics have been edited. (See the original
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> boot=/dev/<EM
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>sda</EM
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map=/boot/map
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install=/boot/boot.b
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prompt
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timeout=50
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message=/boot/message
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>LinuxFromRAID</EM
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image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
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root=/dev/hda5
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image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
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label=LinuxFromRAID
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initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img
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root=/dev/sda5
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> Now, save the file, and run lilo to write the boot record.
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>4.2.2. <TT
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>/etc/fstab</TT
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> For every entry that pointed to the old location, you must now change
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it to the scsi device, but use the same partition. For example:
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> /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
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> If you saw this in your fstab, you would need to
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change <TT
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>/dev/sda2</TT
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Now reboot your system. That's it.
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After the reboot, its best to check the status of the RAID.
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