Hello All another tid-bit my standalone cd is based on 2.4.5 and using 'linux root=/dev/md0 ro' I get right past that point without difficulty . Tia , JimL On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > Hello All , In an attempt to verify that the system would > continue to function with only one drive in a 2 drive raid1 > I removed a drive while the system was up . The system had no > problem continuing to function . I shutdown and powered off in > order to re-insert the drive (no need tempting fate another time) . > Though on reboot the kernel would hang just after printing out: > 'CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a' > and some odd CPU0 ... values on the next line . > This is an SMP board , but no second cpu & the kernel is not smp . > So I booted into a standalone CD with some tools , ie: mdadm . > I then manually hotadded the missing partition back into the array > and made sure it had completed the rebuild for both md's . I even > fsck'd the md's which were flawless . > Now when I boot the kernel it hangs -hard- at: > Partition check: > sda: > There is no keyboard response on the screen for even sysrq . > If I then again boot into the standalone CD I find that the > array's need to resync . But we have never gotten anywhere > near re-mounting the md's or even checking them afaics . > Help . > (please see email 'subject: linux-raid fatal: duplicate geometry' > for hard details) +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html