Re: [gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot

[Dan Johansson]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 12:29, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Dan Johansson wrote:
> > As dmraid is hard masked and it's future doesn't look to bright I have
> > decided to give software raid a try
> > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml). Everything
> > works fine with one exception, when I boot the system I'm getting the
> > following error:
> > Starting up RAID devices (mdadm)
> > mdadm: No arrays found in config file
> >
> > But the system comes up correctly. My /etc/mdadm.conf file contains the
> > following:
> > ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid1 num-devices=2
> > UUID=f03ab886:29539a16:60351ac2:644491c6
> > ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2
> > UUID=b4721e3b:7eab0b51:231a400e:3e228ff3
> > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2
> > UUID=b660191e:81583b46:491c57c8:2ebb62b2
> > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2
> > UUID=f3134895:0a4f292b:8b078635:1f67f091
> >
> > and cat /proc/mdstat gives:
> > Personalities : [raid1]
> > md1 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0]
> >      32000 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> > md2 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0]
> >      505920 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> > md3 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0]
> >      497920 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> > md4 : active raid1 hdc4[1] hda4[0]
> >      79377088 blocks [2/2] [UU]
> > unused devices: <none>
> >
> > Any ideas why mdadm (mdadm -As) can not find my arrays at boot time.
> > --
>
> Is /etc/mdadm.conf the correct location?  Debian uses
> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf.  Are you using a special initrd/initramfs boot
> method?
/etc/mdadm.conf is there, I have even tried to copy it 
to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and the error is still there.
No initrd/iniramfs on this system.

-- 
Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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