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On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: |
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> > You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices |
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> > together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the |
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> > mdadm binary to use a RAID root ! |
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> Could you please keep quiet about that, my computers have been using |
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> RAID root devices for years without an initrd and I don't want them to |
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> get the idea they need one now. |
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thanks, the last thing I want to deal with is an initrd. |
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> Volker, are sda3 and sdb3 marked as Linux Raid autodetect in cfdisk? If |
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> not you may need mdadm, but with the partitions marked as autodetect, the |
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> kernel should figure it out for itself. |
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fdisk -l /dev/sda |
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Platte /dev/sda: 500.1 GByte, 500107862016 Byte |
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255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 60801 Zylinder |
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Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x00000000 |
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Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System |
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/dev/sda1 * 1 8 64228+ fd Linux raid autodetect |
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/dev/sda2 9 981 7815622+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris |
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/dev/sda3 982 5844 39062047+ fd Linux raid autodetect |
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/dev/sda4 5845 60801 441442102+ 5 Erweiterte |
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/dev/sda5 5845 8276 19535008+ fd Linux raid autodetect |
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/dev/sda6 8277 60801 421907031 fd Linux raid autodetect |
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fdisk -l /dev/sdb |
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Platte /dev/sdb: 500.1 GByte, 500107862016 Byte |
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255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spuren, 60801 Zylinder |
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Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes |
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Disk identifier: 0x00000000 |
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Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System |
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/dev/sdb1 * 1 8 64228+ fd Linux raid autodetect |
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/dev/sdb2 9 981 7815622+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris |
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/dev/sdb3 982 5844 39062047+ fd Linux raid autodetect |
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/dev/sdb4 5845 60801 441442102+ 5 Erweiterte |
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/dev/sdb5 5845 8276 19535008+ fd Linux raid autodetect |
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/dev/sdb6 8277 60801 421907031 fd Linux raid autodetect |
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if I only give root=/dev/md1 it won't boot either. |
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and from config: |
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CONFIG_MD=y |
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CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y |
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# CONFIG_MD_LINEAR is not set |
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# CONFIG_MD_RAID0 is not set |
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CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y |
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are there more kernel options I might have missed? |
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