On Monday April 29, bo@sosnetwork.net wrote: > Hello, > > How to detect and activate the RAID manually without > "auto detection"(0xFD in partition type)? > > I tried with "mdadm -R" or "mdadm -A", but it did not work. echo '/dev/hd* /dev/sd*' > /etc/mdadm.conf mdadm -Dsb >> /etc/mdadm.conf # look at /etc/mdadm.conf and make sure that it looks ok. # add "mdadm -As" to an appropriate startup script. Note that this won't work for assembling the root filesystem. To do that, you either need an init-ramdisk which runs "mdadm -As", or use kernel parameters to start the root device.e.g. append="root=/dev/md0 md=0,/dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1" NeilBrown - 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