Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-04 Thread Alan Bartlett
On 04/04/2008, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That would be ""touch ./autolable"". touch /.autorelabel followed by a reboot and a long wait (depending upon the size of your filesystem and the spped of your drives). Alan. ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-03 Thread John
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 00:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Sam Beam wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab > >> and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course). That > >> will at le

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Beam wrote: On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:07, Les Mikesell wrote: First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course). That will at least give you a fairly normal environment to try to figure out why the md1

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-02 Thread Sam Beam
On Wednesday 02 April 2008 01:07, Les Mikesell wrote: > First cut - in your recovery shell, comment out /home from /etc/fstab > and see if you can come up without it (log in as root, of course).  That > will at least give you a fairly normal environment to try to figure out > why the md1 device is

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Beam wrote: I hope... If you are booting a kernel that can't find your root partition, the initrd might be the problem. There are several other things that also have to be right. You should be able to boot your install cd/dvd with "linux rescue" at the boot prompt to fix any of them, so

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Beam
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 15:03, Les Mikesell wrote: > > maybe that is why the system won't boot anymore after I synced the root > > partition? ;) > > > > I hope... > > If you are booting a kernel that can't find your root partition, the > initrd might be the problem.   There are several other thing

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:43:51 -0400: > So you don't run it at all > after creating the md arrays? I don't do any changes to initrd. I create the mirrored raid and I install grub on the second disk, so that it works for booting on both disks. The /boot partition needs to be on its o

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Sam Beam wrote: On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:45:28 -0400: OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the raid1 drivers in it, do I

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Beam
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 05:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:45:28 -0400: > > OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the > > drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has > > the raid1 drivers in it, do I now h

Re: [CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-04-01 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Sam Beam wrote on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 01:45:28 -0400: > OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the > drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the > raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel updates? Will > the sto

[CentOS] raid1 custom initrd and yum

2008-03-31 Thread Sam Beam
OK sorry to hammer the list but one more question - having almost got the drives mirrored and happy - since I have created a custom initrd that has the raid1 drivers in it, do I now have to tell yum to ignore kernel updates? Will the stock kernel render me unbootable? Actually I am not 100% sur