-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > "Peter Humphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, > 28 Dec 2006 18:06:48 +0000: > > [snipped] > >> md: linear personality registered for level -1 >> md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 >> md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 >> [so I've got mdraid compiled in] >> ... >> Activating mdev >> Detected real_root as a md device. Setting up the device node >> Determining root device... >> Mounting root... >> ... >> The root block device is unspecified or not detected. >> -- >> [end of transcript] >> Then I'm invited to specify another device, or enter a shell. I use the >> shell to say "ls -l /dev/md2", which shows the block device I expect to see, >> but "cat /dev/md2" returns an empty result. If I do that from the >> installation CD I get a dump of the contents of the md disk, so it seems >> that the node exists but it isn't connected to the array /dev/md2. >> >> All I can think of is that I've made an error in creating the RAID-1 arrays, >> but can anyone point me to what that might be? > > From what I've seen, there aren't a lot of folks on this list doing RAID, > and some of the ones that are, are using the DM-RAID firmware-RAID stuff, > rather than md-RAID. damn ricers!
here are the 2 most commonly overlooked items: the sdXY partitions must be type FD (linux raid) and you must use a persistent superblock. - -- ======================================================= Mike Doty kingtaco -at- gentoo.org Gentoo/AMD64 Strategic Lead Gentoo Council Gentoo Developer Relations Gentoo Recruitment Lead Gentoo Infrastructure GPG: E1A5 1C9C 93FE F430 C1D6 F2AF 806B A2E4 19F4 AE05 ======================================================= -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRZSTt4BrouQZ9K4FAQJtJAQAzI6r4+AetIHB4pmFtmQFL7mCfm090u2V uS+96fSwweS46YMEoWJSNS/OB9PDJIgGpSCLUwcxl55+7T96yNQl0HVwba0C7IGV P7s7UAH43pRXTpb1S4XClUNnrK6whle5ohCH72imU2a5SaGEiDBedFwng1C3JRPD MyNwgw8aHuA= =fUn9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
