On Tuesday 12 January 2010 10:36:49 am Carlos Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM, dave reisner <d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > Dave, > > Sorry I am confused. Are you saying that I should not do as Baho > suggested to my Grub's menu.lst? So what now? I am really lost. I am > being told to not add any 'mdadm' and 'raid1' modules & hooks into my > system configuration because it needs to be done in Grub. But it seems > to me now you're telling me I should not have to mess with Grub. I > just want a simple RAID1 mirror on my system and the Wiki is a > complete mess and not working for me. Sorry for any confusion on my part, but the way I have described to you is the old way and I have not it fail on me. I have never been able to get raid to boot using the mdadm line in the initrd, so I use the old way which always works for me. I don't like to be constantly messing with my systems, I just what them to work.
