On Wednesday March 3, chris1@psyctc.org wrote: > On 3 Mar 2004 at 10:40, Neil Brown wrote: > > > Wrong. > > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/md0 > > then mount /dev/md0. > > Once you have included /dev/hdc1 in an array, don't touch it again - > > just access the array (/dev/md0). > > Sorry, I was being hasty in writing the Email, that's what I did, > i.e. mkfs the /dev/md0 drive. That's not the problem. > > > You missed a step (step 9). You have to reboot so that /dev/md0 is > > your root device. Once you have done that and are happy with it, you > > add in /dev/hdb1 and let it resync. > Ditto: did that, no go. Sorry, I missed where you said that you rebooted. It sounds very odd. What does "cat /proc/mounts" say? Does your kernel use an initrd? Exactly how did you tell lilo to use /dev/md0? With root=/dev/md0 as an option in lilo.conf, or with append= "root=/dev/md0" or both or something else? 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
