On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:59 -0500, Peter Lauda wrote: > I have been making some progress with my attempted raid1 of boot and > root... but I just can't get it to boot. I have looked at several docs > and tried umpteen times to tweak based on suggestions and documentation. > So if there is any other advice out there.. please... I am near the end > of my rope. > > I have a system with two sata drives and a 2.4.29 kernel w/mdadm and the > md driver in the kernel. I see the raid personalities in /proc/mdstat > when the system boots. > > I have added a kernel parm md=1,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 to my grub.conf > line. > > When I boot the system it fails to setup the array md1 because it cannot > read the superblock for the array. Is this because the /dev/sda3 fs is > already loading or mounted? > > An entry in /var/log/messages tells me: > > md: could not lock [08:03] zero size? I haven't been following your thread, but did you include the raid1 module in your initrd.img, or did you build it into the kernel? Forrest - 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
