Re: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 10, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Joseph L. Casale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the future, when upgrading the kernel, will future initrd's be built with my current modules or will I have to manually create new initrd's after each update? Good question that I would love to know as well. I

Re: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread nate
Tim Nelson wrote: If my assumptions are correct, the onboard drives are detected first, then the arrays assembled, and after the system has passed control from the initrd to boot, THEN the addon controller is detected and hence the third drive (sdc). If I am correct, then I need to update my

[CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread Tim Nelson
Hello fellow CentOS'ers- I've got a system running CentOS 5.0. The motherboard has two onboard SATA ports with two drives attached. I installed the system on a RAID1 setup. However, I'd like to add a hotspare disk to the array. Since there are no additional SATA ports, I've installed an

Re: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread Tim Nelson
I wanted to MaKe and INITRD and you sent me to check out MKINITRD. How thoughtful... :-) Kidding aside, I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out and simply ran a 'mkinitrd --with=sata_sil /path/to/newinitrd kernel' and rebooted. When grub popped up, I edited the initrd line to reflect the

RE: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In the future, when upgrading the kernel, will future initrd's be built with my current modules or will I have to manually create new initrd's after each update? Good question that I would love to know as well. I thought /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd handled this, but not ripping apart the srpm of