On Tuesday 12 January 2010 10:21:19 am dave reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Carlos Williams <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Baho Utot <baho-utot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Try the params on the /boot/grub/menu.lst line > > > > OK - So I am starting from scratch again since my previous attempt > > failed. I boot from the disk. Load modprobe raid1 modules from command > > line and then create the RAID1 mirror with 'mdadm'. I have recreated > > the partitions: > > > > sda1 = 4 GB /boot (bootable) > > sda2 = the rest of the disk (RAID) > > > > sdb1 = 4 GB SWAP (SWAP) > > sdb2 = the rest of the disk (RAID) > > > > Below I created the same RAID. > > > > #mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=2 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 > > > > **I allowed the mirror to synchronize over night. Right now as I type > > this, the mirror is done syncing. > > > > So according to everything we previously discussed, I don't need to > > mess with anything else and can go into the /arch/setup and configure > > my system, right? I should simply only make changes to my menu.lst as > > noted above, and nothing else when I am prompted to 'Configure > > System'? > > > > So am changing the 'kernel' line in the Grub 'menu.lst' to read as > > follows: > > > > kernel vmlinuz26 root=/dev/md0 md=2,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2 ro > > > > *Note the 'ro' at the end. It was already there before I add your > > suggestion in the middle. Do I take it off or leave it on?* > > > > Please let me know if I have missed anything. > > With mdadm in your initrd, you don't need to specify the parameters of > the array in Grub. Foregoing that, the first parameter passed to the > "md" option is the type of raid array (e,g, 0, 1, 456) and not the > number of devices in the array. Sounds good, otherwise. madam in the initrd has never worked for me, I just to the raid the old fashion way and it works. Any way I am moving to slackware 12.2 and 13.0. Arch is just to unstable/buggy/broken, The last installation (using the latest installer) I did was the last straw.
