On 12/8/05, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday December 7, search.lists@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > Yes, that is very helpful. > > > > > > The drive is not being assembled successfully. > > > When you try to mount it, a raid bug (which has since been fixed) > > > causes the mount processed to crash. > > > You should be able to assemble the array with: > > > > > > mdadm -A /dev/md0 -f /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > > > > > > Please try that, then take a copy of > > > cat /proc/mdstat > > > mdadm -D /dev/md0 > > > > # mdadm -A /dev/md0 -f /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > > mdadm: /dev/md0 has been started with 2 drives (out of 3). > > # cat /proc/mdstat > > Personalities : [raid5] > > md0 : active raid5 sdb1[1] sdc1[2] > > 490191104 blocks level 5, 128k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/2] [_UU] > > > > unused devices: <none> > > > > then mdadm -D /dev/md0 hangs, then i make another trace ... > > http://www.lebox.org/milan/debug/dmesg.1134020701 > > > > It looks like the computer was already quite sick. It probably tried > to assemble the array at boot, failed, and left things in an > unfortunate state. > Can you boot with > raid=noautodetect > > And then try the 'mdadm ..' command again? > raid=noautodetect for linux 2.6.11.4-21.9-default bootparam doesn't seem to stop md from loading, still get all the md0 messages in dmesg. I also edited /etc/fstab to not try to mount /dev/md0, also did mv /etc/raidtab /etc/raidtab.off ... I was going to try booting a live "kubuntu" dvd and try to mdadm -D command from there ... since i can't seem to get suse 9.3 to not load it on boot. I posted some more dmesg with traces, but i think it just looks like same thing as before. see http://www.lebox.org/milan/debug/dmesg.1134108554 http://www.lebox.org/milan/debug/dmesg.1134348723 or http://www.lebox.org/milan/debug/ Any more ideas? -- Milan - 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