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Greetings, |
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This is not an really an AMD64 issue, although the system is an nForce4 |
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SLI with nv sata. |
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In short, I'm trying to get my Gentoo system built on an lvm group on |
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top of raid5, but it won't go. |
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I am using a genkernel --lvm2 created initrd but when it searches for |
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raid volumes it find nothing! (I did also have --dmraid but I think |
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that's for those "sudo hardware" onboard raid controllers) |
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However, if I boot to the kernel directly without an initrd, it DOES |
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find the raid devices (but then fails, naturally, because it can't find |
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lvm volumes). |
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Essentially I have: |
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sda5, b5, c5, d5 all on a linux software raid 5 array (/dev/md5) - |
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partition types are all "fd". |
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I then have an lvm group called "system" under that, and then volumes |
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"slash" and "home" under that. |
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Have tried 2.6.13 gentoo-sources and 2.6.14 mm-sources. |
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I've read about a new bootloader option, lvmraid, but I have yet to try |
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adding "lvmraid=/dev/md5" to grub's kernel line. |
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However, it seems strange that the initrd is not picking up the raid |
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devices. |
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Any thoughts? |
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Cheers, |
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-c |
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