Yes, no matter where you mount a raid partition to, you will necessarily need the raid modules loaded. Accessing hardware requires drivers. Jackson On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 11:25 -0500, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:19 AM, toomanymirrors > <toomanymirrors@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I agree, with /dev/md0 being your home directory there should not be any > > kernel panic even if it's not being properly mounted at boot. It sounds > > like there is another issue going on. Try the suggestion above for grub > > and I didn't notice you mentioning you'd added md_mod and raid1 to the > > MODULES list in your rc.conf file either. You will need to do that. > > If I have my system configured as follows: > > /dev/sda1 = /boot (bootable) > /dev/sda2 = / > /dev/sda3 = RAID > > /dev/sdb1 = swap > /dev/sdb2 = /var > /dev/sdb3 = RAID > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 > > Once that is done, since I am not using RAID on anything but my /home > partition, do I need to add 'md_mod' & 'raid1' in the rc.conf section? > Is this a requirement because the Wiki mentions nothing about it...
