Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.81.1 Severity: important
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd writes to initrd a file called script that enable the md used for the root fs. This script fails to create the md because of incorrect parameters passed to mdadm. The parameter passed to mdadm are: mdadm -A $device -R -u $uuid $devices that results in something like: mdadm -A /dev/md0 -R -u bbbebd8c:3499f85b:693d5027:dfae9e91 /dev/hda1 \ /dev/hda2 There are two problems: 1) the first one is that it seems that mdadm doesn't interpreter well the command in "-x" style and prefer the "--xyz" style. 2) if you don't force (--force) the creation of an md device, it fails if one of the components doesn't exists. To solve the problem I used: mdadm --assemble $device --force --run -u $uuid $devices -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.5-1.3 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F ii dash 0.5.2-5 The Debian Almquist Shell ii util-linux 2.12p-4sarge1 Miscellaneous system utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]