Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:34:59 -0500, schreef David Wright: Also, my advice in this post applies only when the disk size is bigger than 2 TiB, and 2 TB 2 TiB. Although I was being flippant, isn't that a bit short-sighted? Currently a 2TB external desktop (Seagate, Staples regular price) is

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:53:54 +0200, schreef Pascal Hambourg: Linux4Bene a écrit : Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? Maybe. This is typically the kind of problem which can happen with the 0.9 superblocks. Why are you using this obsolete

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:01:16 -0400, schreef Gary Dale: On 16/07/15 08:00 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:58:15 +, schreef Linux4Bene: snip Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? When I dd'ed, it was only the 40 GB at the start

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-19 Thread Linux 4 Bene
Op Sun, 19 Jul 2015 15:36:07 +, schreef Linux4Bene: Well, I have tried so many configs to get this dedicated server up and running, that I tried a whole bunch of scenarios. The OVH rescue system only loads raid partitions of the type 0.9. It didn't look like it wanted to read my type 1.2

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Wright a écrit : Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): David Wright a écrit : Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): May I also ask why you created a separate /boot ? Perhaps he read your https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00717.html Not without a

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
David Wright a écrit : Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): May I also ask why you created a separate /boot ? Perhaps he read your https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00717.html Not without a time machine. Also, my advice in this post applies only when the disk

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): David Wright a écrit : Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): May I also ask why you created a separate /boot ? Perhaps he read your https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00717.html Not without a time

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/07/15 08:00 AM, Linux4Bene wrote: Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:58:15 +, schreef Linux4Bene: snip Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? When I dd'ed, it was only the 40 GB at the start of the disk, not at the end. Any way I can remove this error

Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Linux4Bene
installing grub, I get this error: error: found two disks with the index 0 for RAID md2. error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). error: found two disks with the index 0 for RAID md2. error: superfluous RAID member (2 found). error: found two disks with the index 0 for RAID md2. error: superfluous

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Linux4Bene
Op Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:58:15 +, schreef Linux4Bene: snip Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? When I dd'ed, it was only the 40 GB at the start of the disk, not at the end. Any way I can remove this error and not having my LVM data destroyed?

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pascal Hambourg (pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org): May I also ask why you created a separate /boot ? Perhaps he read your https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00717.html :) Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Superfluous RAID member

2015-07-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Linux4Bene a écrit : Could it be that grub is confused by the mdadm 0.9 metadata at the end of the disk? Maybe. This is typically the kind of problem which can happen with the 0.9 superblocks. Why are you using this obsolete format ? You should use the newer 1.x format, specifically 1.2

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Steve Dowe s...@warpuniversal.co.uk wrote: On 13/06/12 23:15, Tom H wrote: Since metadata 1.1 or 1.2 stores the metadata at the beginning rather than at the end, perhaps using a partitioned mdraid device with that metada works with squeeze. Good idea.  I'll

mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Steve Dowe
out many more of those error messages: error: superfluous RAID member (5 found). repeats 17 times So it does point to grub being at fault somewhere, rather than the initrd. Have I missed something blindingly obvious? Thanks again, Steve -- Steve Dowe Warp Universal Limited http://warp2.me

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Christofer C. Bell
, as when it boots I see an error flash up quickly:  error: superfluous RAID member (5 found) It appears that the initramfs then gets loaded, the RAID detection fails and it then looks for the LVM volume group, which it can't find (as the LVM group exists on the RAID device). I don't believe

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
, as when it boots I see an error flash up quickly:  error: superfluous RAID member (5 found) It appears that the initramfs then gets loaded, the RAID detection fails and it then looks for the LVM volume group, which it can't find (as the LVM group exists on the RAID device).  I see this output

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
).  But I must be doing something wrong with the disk set up stage in the installer, as when it boots I see an error flash up quickly:  error: superfluous RAID member (5 found) It appears that the initramfs then gets loaded, the RAID detection fails and it then looks for the LVM volume group

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Gary Dale
flash up quickly: error: superfluous RAID member (5 found) It appears that the initramfs then gets loaded, the RAID detection fails and it then looks for the LVM volume group, which it can't find (as the LVM group exists on the RAID device). I see this output: Loading, please wait... mdadm

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: For example, Squeeze has problems with booting from partitioned RAID arrays. After running update-initramfs and update-grub, I find that the UUID for the partitions has been replaced with the UUID for the array, so that the

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Steve Dowe
On 13/06/12 19:07, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com wrote: I don't believe you can boot from a striped volume (raid5 being a stripe + parity). I found some instructions that may allow this to work but requires packing a non-standard

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Steve Dowe
On 13/06/12 19:56, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: For example, Squeeze has problems with booting from partitioned RAID arrays. After running update-initramfs and update-grub, I find that the UUID for the partitions has been replaced with the

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Steve Dowe s...@warpuniversal.co.uk wrote: On 13/06/12 19:56, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com wrote: For example, Squeeze has problems with booting from partitioned RAID arrays. After running update-initramfs and

Re: mdadm error - superfluous RAID member

2012-06-13 Thread Steve Dowe
On 13/06/12 23:15, Tom H wrote: Since metadata 1.1 or 1.2 stores the metadata at the beginning rather than at the end, perhaps using a partitioned mdraid device with that metada works with squeeze. Good idea. I'll boot it up with a live CD and report back soon. -- Steve Dowe Warp Universal