> In the future, I'll build my own .conf files just to be sure. In > the long run, I'm just going to find a RAID controller that does > hardware RAID5, preferably one that's hot swappable, and just > rebuild the RAID on that. > > > I also like to run / from a raid array. /boot is a mirror, > > and so any faulty drive will keep the system bootable. > > Are you saying / includes a /boot partition and you still have a > separate /boot partition? That's a cool way to set it up. I've got > some extra drives and might be able to work out something similar. > Without the /boot mirror, will Linux be able to boot the RAID > directly? I didn't think that was possible.
Hope you get your array back, I'm not sure what else to try. No backup? Yes, you can create a seperate partition for /boot. It must be a single partition, drive, or best of all, raid 1 array. Nothing else. Without /boot seperate, your kernel can't load. / can be a raid 5, or raid 0 or whatever. Because your /boot isn't a fancy array, the kernel will load, tehn load up mdadm to create your root raid array and then mount /. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]