running command before fstab load

M&M · 04-22-2005, 01:54 PM

Hi!
I need to run "dmraid -ay" command at boot, before "mount -a" executes at boot, so i can have my raid arrays mounted at boot time?
In wich file can i do this?
Running suse 9.2 64bit

Regards.

jailbait · 04-22-2005, 03:57 PM

"I need to run "dmraid -ay" command at boot, before "mount -a" executes at boot, so i can have my raid arrays mounted at boot time?
In wich file can i do this?"

On my SuSE 9.1 system the fstab mounts are done in a script called /etc/init.d/boot.d/S06boot.localfs So you could try putting your "dmraid -ay" command in /etc/init.d/boot.d/S06boot.localfs ahead of the fstab mount commands.

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Steve Stites

M&M · 04-25-2005, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by jailbait
"I need to run "dmraid -ay" command at boot, before "mount -a" executes at boot, so i can have my raid arrays mounted at boot time?
In wich file can i do this?"

On my SuSE 9.1 system the fstab mounts are done in a script called /etc/init.d/boot.d/S06boot.localfs So you could try putting your "dmraid -ay" command in /etc/init.d/boot.d/S06boot.localfs ahead of the fstab mount commands.

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Steve Stites

Tks, mine was S07.localfs, i just added the command at the start of the file and now it's running great.

Any idea of how to do this together with lilo? My windows 2000 is installed in the raid array.
Regards

jailbait · 04-25-2005, 08:30 PM

"Any idea of how to do this together with lilo?"

I don't know off the top of my head. If I were tackling this problem I would not start by looking at lilo. I would look to see if you could change your BIOS settings to reflect the correct RAID configuration and then lilo should correctly follow the logic of the BIOS configuration.

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Steve Stites