also sprach lrhorer <lrho...@satx.rr.com> [2011.02.01.2123 +0100]: > far too quickly to be seen, but then an error pops up concerning > an address space collision of some PCI device. Then it shows three > errors for RAID devices md1. md2, and md3, saying they are already > in use.
This looks like a hardware problem, causing mdadm to fail to assemble. > Immediately thereafter the system shows errors concerning the RAID > targets being already in use, after which point the system complains it > can't mount / (md2), /dev, /sys, or /proc (in that order) because the > sources do not exist (if /dev/md2 does not exist, how can it be busy?). > Thereafter, of course, it fails to find init, since / is not mounted. > It then tries to run BusyBox, but Busybox complains: > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off This is normal. Don't worry about that. Instead, try to assemble the arrays manually. And provide me with a lot more information, e.g. ls -l /dev/md* /dev/[sh]d* cat /proc/mdstat mdadm -Es dmesg It would really help if you could also enable initramfs debugging (http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug) and provide us with the output file. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. it is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value." -- oscar wilde
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