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Try appending md=3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3 to the kernel command line |
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parameters. |
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On 04/04/2010 01:45 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel |
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>> and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as |
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>> the kernel starts looking for the install on /dev/md3. What I'm not |
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>> understanding is how does the boot process get the information |
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>> required to assemble the RAID device. |
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> GRUB does not assemble raid. That's why it only works with RAID1. |
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> By your own account, GRUB has succeeded, therefore GRUB is not the |
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> problem. |
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> The problem is the kernel |
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> The kernel assembles RAID by looking for partitions of with the Linux |
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> RAID partition type, finding out what kind of RAID they are, and |
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> assembling them (according to their RAID volume UUID). |
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> You apparently only have one RAID volume. It's probably being assigned |
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> to /dev/md0, yet you are passing root=/dev/md3.. not sure why you are |
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> doing that. |
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Xavier Parizet |
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