Hi list, well, I won't bother you with the whole story, so just the important facts. I have to use initrd because I need to preload the module for the SATA Controller (4port Marvell). I have 4 disks with /<root> and a few other partitions on RAID1 and others on RAID5. I made a raidtab config and build the arrays with no problems, created fstab an can mount all partitions from my boot/rescue system just fine. The problem is booting the system. After loading the SATA module, linuxrc tries to mount /dev/md0 (which is supposed to be /<root>) and fails with input/output error. ^D -> rescue shell let me do cat /proc/mdstat wich shows something like: <identities> [raid1 raid5] but no arrays. I wonder if I need a statically built binary of mdadm or thelike in initrd to initialize the arrays or should a proper configured kernel just do fine? thanks Paul - 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
