On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 13:05:00 MDT, Nate Duehr writes: >>> However, when I boot with "Linux root=/dev/md3 ext3" it can't find a >>> valid ext3/ext2/reiserfs superblock on md(9,3). There's a couple lines >>> right before that that tell me that md is autodetecting RAID arrays >>> (can't copy/paste that for obvious reasons). >>> >>> Any hints/pointers? The various howtos etc. aren't all that >>> helpful for this kind of problem.
>>If you're running an initrd kernel, you'll need to create a new initrd
>>image that points to /dev/md3 instead of the physical disk.
Thanks, but I'm not using an initrd kernel in this case.
>obviously if you boot from one of the disks you would have to be ultra
>careful to mark the other disk as "bad" in the MD arrary before
>rebooting with RAID support or things would get very corrupted/messy
>quickly.
That's why I only have one "real" device in the set at the moment:
device /dev/sdb3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/null
raid-disk 1
failed-disk 1
As soon as I can mount it as root-fs I'll add sda3 to the set.
cheers,
&rw
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