On Friday 03 February 2006 2:02 pm, you wrote: Hi Dean, Thanks for the suggestions. > On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, dean gaudet wrote: > > i've never looked at yaird in detail -- but you can probably use > > initramfs-tools instead of yaird... > > i take it all back... i just tried initramfs-tools and it failed to boot > my system properly... whereas yaird almost got everything right. > > the main thing i'd say yaird is doing wrong is that it is specifying the > root raid devices explicitly rather than allowing mdadm to scan the > partitions list and assemble by UUID... > > maybe try the patch below on your yaird configuration and then run: > > dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r` > > which will rebuild your initrd with this change... then see if it survives > your boot testing. > > -dean > > p.s. this patch has been submitted to debian bugdb... > > --- /etc/yaird/Templates.cfg 2006/02/03 02:44:49 1.1 > +++ /etc/yaird/Templates.cfg 2006/02/03 02:46:15 > @@ -299,8 +299,7 @@ > SCRIPT "/init" > BEGIN > !mknod <TMPL_VAR NAME=target> b <TMPL_VAR NAME=major> <TMPL_VAR > NAME=minor> - !mdadm --assemble <TMPL_VAR NAME=target> --uuid <TMPL_VAR > NAME=uuid> \ - ! <TMPL_LOOP NAME=components> <TMPL_VAR > NAME=dev></TMPL_LOOP> > + !mdadm -Ac partitions <TMPL_VAR NAME=target> --uuid <TMPL_VAR > NAME=uuid> END SCRIPT > END TEMPLATE I applied the patch as well as modified the mdadm.conf, as you suggested in the previous email, and the system restarted without problem! A positive step forward. Removing a drive however, results in a disruption to the boot process requiring user input (ctrl D) in the admin console to kick things off again. Notably it works from this point, where previously I had encountered kernel panic. Is there any way to avoid this requirement for input, so that the system skips the missing drive as the raid/initrd system did previously? If you have a system restart after a power outage combined with a degraded array, the server would be unacceptably kept offline until manual intervention occurred. Cheers & Thanks, 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
