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 both

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 initrd and

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

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 partitions on

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: created

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: autorun ... md:

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

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! message. I can't

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

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/md0