Re: SL6.2 no boot from degraded RAID1... with fix...

2012-08-07 Thread Winnie Lacesso
> FYI, as a regression from SL6.0 and SL6.1, SL6.2 does not boot from > degraded RAID1 devices. Apologies for the question but is this true of Linux Software RAID1 only, or of hardware RAID1 as well?

Re: SL6.2 no boot from degraded RAID1... with fix...

2012-08-07 Thread Vladimir Mosgalin
Hi Winnie Lacesso! On 2012.08.07 at 14:33:43 +0100, Winnie Lacesso wrote next: > > FYI, as a regression from SL6.0 and SL6.1, SL6.2 does not boot from > > degraded RAID1 devices. > > Apologies for the question but is this true of Linux Software RAID1 only, > or of hardware RAID1 as well? Har

Re: SL6.2 no boot from degraded RAID1 / with fix / Re: dracut update

2012-08-10 Thread Winnie Lacesso
Happy Friday! re: > 004-283 was a fastbug for RHEL 6.3 . Since we have not released SL > 6.3 yet it is only available in the 6rolling tree. We have to deploy an important SL server by 1 Oct and we'd like it to be SL6.2. We intend it to have Linux Software RAID1 pair of OS disks, but this dreadfu

Re: SL6.2 no boot from degraded RAID1 / with fix / Re: dracut update

2012-08-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Winnie Lacesso wrote: > Happy Friday! > > re: >> 004-283 was a fastbug for RHEL 6.3 . Since we have not released SL >> 6.3 yet it is only available in the 6rolling tree. > > We have to deploy an important SL server by 1 Oct and we'd like it > to be SL6.2. We inten

SL6.2 no boot from degraded RAID1... with fix... Re: dracut update not available ?

2012-08-05 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
FYI, as a regression from SL6.0 and SL6.1, SL6.2 does not boot from degraded RAID1 devices. If your "/" is on a RAID1 mirrored across 2 disks and 1 of the 2 disks dies, your system will not boot because dracut does not activate the required md devices. This is a very serious problem because RAI

Re: SL6.2 no boot from degraded RAID1... with fix... Re: dracut update not available ?

2012-08-07 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 03:54:21PM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > FYI, as a regression from SL6.0 and SL6.1, SL6.2 does not boot from degraded > RAID1 devices. > For the record, the present bug affects the "md" Linux software raid devices. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Syst