On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:45:39PM +0200, Philipp Gortan wrote: > > I've set up RAID-1 on a pair of disks recently. When I reboot I get this > > in syslog, even though the partition was perfect & not degraded before: > > > > kernel: md1: former device ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 is unavailable, removing from array! > > > > More specifically, of the 4 RAID-1 partitions, md1 (my root partition) > > is in degraded mode. [snip] > I solved the problem by creating a new initrd and fiddling with the lilo > configuration: > for me, > after re-adding the always-failing drive to the raid > # mdadm -a /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 > i updated my lilo.conf to: > > ... > boot=/dev/md0 > raid-extra-boot=/dev/hda,/dev/hdc > root=/dev/md0 > ... > > and created a new initrd > # mkinitrd -k -r /dev/md0 -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.3-1-k7 > > and ran lilo again > # lilo [snip] Unfortunately, installing lilo in place of grub hasn't solved the problem, so I'm still without a solution. -Thomas - 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
