Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 23 Mar 2006, Dan Christensen moaned: > >> I also tried putting root=LABEL=/ on my boot command line. Debian's >> kernel seemed to understand this but gave: >> >> Begin: Waiting for root filesystem... >> Done. >> Done. >> Begin: Mounting root filesystem >> ...kernel autodetection of raid seemed to happen here... >> ALERT /dev/disk/by_label// does not exist > > Ah, welcome to the udev problems. Look at the Debian kernel-maint list > at lists.debian.org and marvel at the trouble they're having because > they're using udev on their initramfs. I'm glad I used mdev instead :) Yes, I'm understanding better what is going on. First of all, / is not a valid label. (The relevant thing for udev is the "safe" output of "vol_id /dev/md1".) So I've changed the filesystem label to "root" using tune2fs -L. Second, the udev in Debian had support for persistent devices for one brief release, but it has been taken out while problems with ide-generic are being investigated. I put in my own initramfs hook script to put the appropriate udev files in the initramfs image, but still I'm not getting the /dev/disk/by_label/root symlink. I can't figure out why this isn't working. >> BUT, my self-compiled kernel is now failing to bring up the arrays! > > Without boot messages it's very hard to say what's going on. If you have > another machine, you could try booting with the messages going over a > serial console... I may try that, but the stock Debian kernel is working for me so for now I'll probably leave this unsolved. Sorry that this is getting a bit off topic for the list. Thanks for all the help! Dan - 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
