Hi Gregory,
hopefully your problem was already solved.
I had the same problem with SUSE 6.4 (2.2.14).
Whatever I did, nothing happened and there was
no clue what went wrong.
So I got the 2.2.16 Kernel with the RAID-Patch
from Redhat-FTP and everything works fine.
I guess it was the SUSE Kernel on which a number
of patches have been already applied.
Horst
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Hello, I'm trying to install RAID1 on a SuSE box.
The box has two identical 20-ish GB disks in it, ATA/66. SuSE is
installed on /dev/hda (in various partitions: /boot / /var and so on).
According to the Software-RAID HOWTO, I can create a RAID device in
degraded mode and then copy my data to the md device and "restore" the
failed-disk (the original root disk).
Well, following the instructions under Method 2 of section 4 of the howto,
nothing works.
in /etc/raidtab I have:
# /
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/hda8
raid-disk 0
failed-disk 0
device /dev/hdb8
raid-disk 1
I've also tried swapping the order and numbering of the devices:
device /dev/hdb8
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hda8
failed-disk 0
#raid-disk 1
and any other number of combinations. The real root filesystem is on
/dev/hda8. When I run 'mkraid' I get:
root@vanmodem(pts/0):~ 51 # mkraid /dev/md0
handling MD device /dev/md0
analyzing super-block
disk 0: /dev/hda8, failed
disk 1: /dev/hdb8, 4200966kB, raid superblock at 4200896kB
mkraid: aborted, see the syslog and /proc/mdstat for potential clues.
root@vanmodem(pts/0):~ 52 #
However, /proc/mdstat contains:
root@vanmodem(pts/0):~ 52 # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0] [3 raid1] [4 raid5]
read_ahead not set
md0 : inactive
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
md4 : inactive
md5 : inactive
md6 : inactive
md7 : inactive
root@vanmodem(pts/0):~ 53 #
and there is nothing in the syslogs.
Any idea's on how to get this working?
Thanks in advance.
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