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I'm building a dual disk RAID-1 on Linux 2.0.36. It ain't workin'. So . . . .
What the heck is this:
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Boot messages:
Starting up RAID devices.
Cannot determine md version: operation not supported by device.
*** An error occurred during the RAID startup.
*** Dropping you to a shell; The system will reboot
*** when you leave the shell.
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dmesg feedback:
autodetected RAID arrays
could not import sda5
could not import sdb5
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
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I get these when I reboot. It then drops me into single user mode. We
configured the kernel to support "autodetect of RAID" and "RAID-1". I
built the latest RAID tools (raidtools-19990421-0.90) and applied the
latest patches to the kernel (raid0145-19990421-2.0.36). I then used fdisk
to change the partition id's of the partitions I want to mirror (sda5 and
sdb5) to "fd" as per the install instructions. However, fdisk sees this as an
unknown partition type. Finally I ran "mkraid --really-force /dev/md5"
and rebooted to get the errors above. So . . . what gives???
Oh, the /etc/raidtab is setup as it states in the HOWTO. The mirror even seems active.
Thanks and have a great day! :-)
Paul
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Paul B. Brown
Principle Operations Support Engineer
PSINet, Inc.
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