Hi,
I'm having a little difficulty setting up a new raid system. I'm mostly
following
the instructions m. allan noah posted to this list a few days ago. Anyway, this
is
what's happening.
Completely new system, no previous operating system installed at all. System
spec is:-
P-II 400
Asus P2B motherboard
128Mb RAM
3 * IBM 4.5 Gb UW SCSI drives (ultrastar)
1 10Gb IDE drive
Set up, by installing RedHat 5.2 onto the IDE drive, then removing the kernel
source,
and replacing with a clean 2.0.35 source tree. Patched this with
raid0145-981110-2.0.35.gz,
and recompiled for raid support, with all personalities, and autostart support
enabled.
Then, compiled raidtools-19981105-0.80.tar.gz (no problems), and partitioned all
3
of the SCSI disks identically. Changed partition types to fd, and ran mkraid on
the
partiitions, with no problem. Put an ext2 file system on the md devices, and at
this
stage I could mount the raid devices without any trouble.
Then rebooted. At boot time, the system recognises the raid arrays, and attempts
to auto start them. The system then complains that raidadd used an obsolete md
ioctl, and the version of the raid tools should be upgraded. The system then
drops
you into single user mode.
At this stage, cat /proc/mdstat shows that all raid devices are running, so they
were obviously autostarted successfully. I'm sure there's a simple solution to
this,
can someone give me a couple of pointers... Oh, and is there any up to date raid
docs anywhere around yet?
Thanks,
Mike.
