Hello, I followed along with the HowTo, "How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System" by falko. I am adapting this HowTo that is based on fc8 to a fc6 server that I have. I have 2 disks sda (empty) and sdb (LVM). I am in unfamiliar water here with raid or lvm. I went ahead and tried it because I knew I had a previous kernel image that I could fall back on if I managed to fubar this setup. I am now using that boot image as predicted. There may be more to it but I think all that I need is to set up the LVM properly in the fstab/mtab and mkinitrd a proper image. What I have now is errors of "setuproot error mounting /proc" and "cannot opendir(/proc)" so obviously the root file system is not being pointed to correctly. I thought I would just stop at this point instead of messing about and learning all that would be required to sort it out myself and give this forum a chance to point out my obvious mistakes first. Here is the configurations that I have now: [root@localhost ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 107G 80G 22G 79% / /dev/sdb1 99M 18M 76M 20% /boot tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 14593 117113850 fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 14 14593 117113850 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1: 119.9 GB, 119924457472 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 29278432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 fallback=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.22.14-72.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.14-72.fc6 ro root=/dev/md1 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.22.14-72.fc6.img title Fedora Core (2.6.22.14-72.fc6) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.14-72.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.22.14-72.fc6.img title Fedora Core (2.6.22.9-61.fc6) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-61.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-61.fc6.img [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/mdadm.conf ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=c6fd5698:b976df7f:b2c25c31:740a24c9 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 UUID=5185e26d:7275e924:550164b9:3326281b [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/md0 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/md1 swap swap defaults 0 0 [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/mtab /dev/md0 / ext3 rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
I think the problem is LVM. I haven't tried yet to convert a running LVM system to RAID1 yet, but I might soon...
Well, how about now? Any suggestions on which way to go with this would not only be appreciated but would also help me to get my server back to where it should be. I have recorded each step along the way and backed up everythin so far. Correct me if I am wrong but as I stated in my original post, I think it is just a matter of pointed the initrd at the correct mount point or do you think there is more to it than that? Thanks though for the response.
falco, I'm going to go ahead and try a few things here on my own. I just started looking into what might have went wrong and the first thing that I checked was that when I did the copy: cp -dpRx / /mnt/md1 /proc and /dev didn't copy so of course initrd is looking for non-existant directories. I'm going to try: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda and then continue from there to see if I can make this work. Do you have any suggestions at this point?
Well, I decided to bail on this one. No one seems to want to tackle this problem and I don't have the time so if anyone figures this out and catches this thread post your methods. I would sure like to convert this 2 disk running system to a raid1.
rbanks, I've got a similar situation, with a little bit of a twist. I've just migrated my FC8 system with 3-160GB drives to 2-750GB drives. Using the pvmove command, I was able to move all my LVM extents from the old drives to one of the new drives with no issues. Now, I want to use the 2nd 750GB drive as a mirror, but cannot rebuild the system from scratch, as this would take about a week, with all the custom software I have running. I can't seem to do this automatically since the segments from the 3 individual drives show up in the Redhat LVM manager as separate, and the LVM Manager wants 3 disks to configure a mirror. So, I'm not sure if this is even possible, but I'd imagine I need to somehow rebuild or merge the 3 segments into one before I can configure the mirror. I'm going to play with this for a while in a virtual let you know what I find out. Falco, if you have any suggestions to start from, I'd apprediate it.
