On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 15:36 -0500, Bryan Christ wrote: > My apologies if this is not the right place to ask this question. > Hopefully it is. > > I created a RAID5 array with: > > mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=5 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 > > mdadm -D /dev/md0 verifies the devices has a persistent super-block, but > upon reboot, /dev/md0 does not get automatically assembled (an hence is > not a installable/bootable device). > > I have created several raid1 arrays and one raid5 array this way and > have never had this problem. In all fairness, this is the first time I > have used mdadm for the job. Usually, I boot to something like > SysRescueCD, used raidtools to create my array and then reboot with my > Slackware install CD. > > Anyone know why this might be happening? Are you trying to boot on this raid device? I believe there is a limitation as what raid type you can boot off of (IIRC. only raid0 and raid1). -- Zivago Lee <z@xxxxxxxx> - 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
