On Thursday 25 August 2005 7:14 pm, you wrote: > Fdisk it and set partitions to Raid Autodetect (0xfd) possibly? > > Tyler. Nope already set fd.... > Lewis Shobbrook wrote: > >Hi All, > >I have a problem attempting to boot a raid 1 system from lilo. I have > >succeeded at this many times in the past, but am completely stumped as to > >what the issue is in this instance. I have the boot and root partitions > >seperate on /dev/md0 & /dev/md1 respectively, both raid1. > >The mdadm examination for the components is clean and the superblocks > > appear as they ought. I'm using Debian unstable with std. apt > > kernel-image. The correct modules are in place for the initrd. > >The boot partition fails to mount during the boot process... > >fsck.ext3: invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md0 > >The superblock can not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > >filesystem.... omitted usual stuff... > >Root password for maintenance or Control-D to continue... > > > >The bizarre thing is that it appears perfectly clean, I've re-zero'd the > >superblocks and completely recreated the device, but the result is always > > the same. > >mdrun loads /dev/md0 in a clean state straight away and it mounts > >cleanly. /dev/md1 is no problem. > >mdadm -E of the components is clean, as is mdadm -d for the device. > >My fstab & mtab are the same as systems running the same kernel that work > >fine. > > > >I found the system laying around from about 12 months ago which had > > originally been set-up using raidtools. I upgraded the system using > > dist-upgrade installed mdadm; after zeroing all superblocks for both > > drives and component partitions, I created the devices with the following > > ... > > > >mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda1 missing > >reformatted ext3 and restored the files before adding the missing devices > > and resyncing. > >I'm stumped! > >Anyone got any ideas? > > > >Cheers, > > > >Lewis > >- > >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 - 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
