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From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 10:34:11
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0609030628390.23631@p34.internal.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot by Dan Johansson
1 On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Dan Johansson wrote:
2
3 > As dmraid is hard masked and it's future doesn't look to bright I have decided
4 > to give software raid a try
5 > (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml). Everything works
6 > fine with one exception, when I boot the system I'm getting the following
7 > error:
8 > Starting up RAID devices (mdadm)
9 > mdadm: No arrays found in config file
10 >
11 > But the system comes up correctly. My /etc/mdadm.conf file contains the
12 > following:
13 > ARRAY /dev/md4 level=raid1 num-devices=2
14 > UUID=f03ab886:29539a16:60351ac2:644491c6
15 > ARRAY /dev/md3 level=raid1 num-devices=2
16 > UUID=b4721e3b:7eab0b51:231a400e:3e228ff3
17 > ARRAY /dev/md2 level=raid1 num-devices=2
18 > UUID=b660191e:81583b46:491c57c8:2ebb62b2
19 > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2
20 > UUID=f3134895:0a4f292b:8b078635:1f67f091
21 >
22 > and cat /proc/mdstat gives:
23 > Personalities : [raid1]
24 > md1 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0]
25 > 32000 blocks [2/2] [UU]
26 > md2 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0]
27 > 505920 blocks [2/2] [UU]
28 > md3 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0]
29 > 497920 blocks [2/2] [UU]
30 > md4 : active raid1 hdc4[1] hda4[0]
31 > 79377088 blocks [2/2] [UU]
32 > unused devices: <none>
33 >
34 > Any ideas why mdadm (mdadm -As) can not find my arrays at boot time.
35 > --
36 > Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
37 > ***************************************************
38 > This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons!
39 > ***************************************************
40 >
41
42 Is /etc/mdadm.conf the correct location? Debian uses
43 /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf. Are you using a special initrd/initramfs boot
44 method?
45 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] Errormessage from mdadm at boot Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu>