Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-09 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On 4/8/06, Mike Garey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one last question though.. When I update /boot/grub/menu.lst > while booted from /dev/md0 with both disks available, does this file > get written to the MBR on both disks, or do I have to do this > manually? > Grub's configuration lives on

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-08 Thread Mike Garey
> On 4/5/06, Jim Klimov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm afraid I haven't seen your first messages in detail. Sorry, if I > > repeat the lines you already know by heart ;) > > > > Nevertheless, do you by chance have the ability to rebuild your > > kernel, or are you keen on making MD work from in

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-07 Thread Tuomas Leikola
> but wouldn't I need to have /dev/md0 available before doing mdadm > --assemble? When booting from an initrd image, /dev/md0 is never > created for some reason.. > Sorry, I didn't realize initrd adds to the mix. > > Note, you should never do any read/write access to the component disks > > afte

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Garey
On 4/5/06, Paul Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Garey wrote: > > > I seem to be getting closer.. If I try booting from a kernel without > > raid1 and md support, but using an initrd with raid1/md modules, then > > I get the "ALERT! /dev/md0 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!" > > mess

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Clements
Mike Garey wrote: I seem to be getting closer.. If I try booting from a kernel without raid1 and md support, but using an initrd with raid1/md modules, then I get the "ALERT! /dev/md0 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!" message. I can't understand why there would be any difference between us

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Garey
On 4/5/06, Tuomas Leikola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/5/06, Mike Garey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried booting from /dev/hdc1 (as /dev/md0 in grub) using a 2.6.15 > > kernel with md and raid1 support built in and this is what I now get: > > > > md: autodetecting raid arrays > > md: aut

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-05 Thread Tuomas Leikola
On 4/5/06, Mike Garey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried booting from /dev/hdc1 (as /dev/md0 in grub) using a 2.6.15 > kernel with md and raid1 support built in and this is what I now get: > > md: autodetecting raid arrays > md: autorun ... > md: considering hdc1 ... > md: adding hdc1 ... > md: c

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Garey
On 4/5/06, Troels Bang Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't quite what you asked about, but the rootraiddoc97 document is > kinda obsolete by now > > -Debian Sarge has a new partitioner which can set up pretty advanced > RAID configurations when installing. Just create RAID auto partition

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-05 Thread Troels Bang Jensen
This isn't quite what you asked about, but the rootraiddoc97 document is kinda obsolete by now -Debian Sarge has a new partitioner which can set up pretty advanced RAID configurations when installing. Just create RAID auto partitions on the disks and then create the arrays afterwards in the pa

Re: Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-04 Thread Mike Garey
Just wanted to add a few more details/questions to my previous post.. In case I provided too much information in my previous email, here's a condensed version: 1) got to "step 6.2 Add the first-disk to our existing RAID device" of the rootraiddoc walkthrough 2) issued command "mdadm --add /dev/md

Can't mount /dev/md0 after stopping a synchronization

2006-04-04 Thread Mike Garey
I'm in the process of setting up a software RAID level 1 on debian testing with two 160 gig drives on an Asus P4P800 motherboard with Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz and 512 megs of RAM. I've been following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mdadm/rootraiddoc97.html, but after rebooting to /dev/hdc1 (