On Monday October 18, htrafmb@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > i've got a / over a failed raid5. i mean, three > disks: one broken (a), one good (b), one failed (c). > the last one was kicked out of the array because a > read error. anyway, no trouble because i've got backup > and so on. Well, if I boot from another disk and force > assembly it restarts, but I would like to know if I > can force the assembly of md0 for device (b) and (c) > from kernel command line (grub/lilo). No, you cannot. In this situation the kernel simply will not trust the data. You need mdadm to modify the superblocks before it will assemble it. NeilBrown > > Thanks a lot for your time and your work, > andrea (a happy software raid user) > > > > ___________________________________ > Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto pi,Ay divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! > http://it.messenger.yahoo.it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html