Here is a patch for Fedora Core 4 to create a modified /sbin/mkinitrd script (I called mine /sbin/mkinitrd2) to be able to create an initial ramdisk that can load dmraid so that you can start linux from the raid. The script copies /sbin/dmraid.static over to the initrd image, so you should compile dmraid using the ./configure --enable-static_link option, and copy the tools/dmraid file over to /sbin/dmraid.static
The following assumes you have copied your system files over to the raid and installed grub on the boot partition).
Apply the following patch to your existing /sbin/mkinitrd file to create mkinitrd2.
--- mkinitrd 2005-05-17 15:03:33.000000000 -0700
+++ mkinitrd2 2005-10-31 11:18:47.000000000 -0800
@@ -587,6 +587,7 @@
inst /sbin/nash "$MNTIMAGE/bin/nash"
inst /sbin/insmod.static "$MNTIMAGE/bin/insmod"
+inst /sbin/dmraid.static "$MNTIMAGE/bin/dmraid"
ln -s /sbin/nash $MNTIMAGE/sbin/modprobe
if [ -n "$USE_UDEV" ]; then
@@ -734,6 +735,8 @@
else
echo "echo Making device-mapper control node" >> $RCFILE
echo "mkdmnod" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "echo Activating dmraid" >> $RCFILE
+ echo "dmraid -ay --ignorelocking" >> $RCFILE
echo "echo Scanning logical volumes" >> $RCFILE
echo "lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure" >> $RCFILE
echo "echo Activating logical volumes" >> $RCFILE
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To create a new initrd image you would for example
# cd /boot
# mkinitrd2 initrd 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp
replacing the initrd with the name of the initrd image file you want to create and the 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp with your kernel version string.
Add the following to your /etc/grub/grub.conf file changing the /dev/mapper/sil_afbgdiadbbaa2 to the name of your actual root raid partition and the /initrd to the name of the initrd file that you created with mkinitrd2 and of course your kernel version and image filename to your actual version:
title Fedora Core (2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp) dmraid
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp ro root=/dev/mapper/sil_afbgdiadbbaa2
initrd /initrd
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