Ian Ward Comfort wrote: : On Oct 3, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Dean S. Messing wrote: : > I've created a software RAID-0, defined a Volume Group on in with : > (currently) a single logical volume, and copied my entire : > installation onto it, modifying the copied fstab to reflect where : > the new "/" is. : : > mkinitrd --preload raid0 --with=raid0 initrd_raid.img 2.6.22.5-76-fc7 : : > But the thing won't complete the boot process. From the boot : > messages it appears to not be starting the array, so when it goes : > to scan for LVs it doesn't find the one that's sitting on top of : > the array where root lives. : > : > Are there instructions for how to make this work? I've googled for : > a couple of hours, tried a bunch of stuff, but can't get it to : > work. From what I've read I suspect I must hand-tweek the "init" : > file in the initrd. : : You're probably correct in that your initrd's nash script currently : lacks any "raidautorun" directives, since mkinitrd is looking at your : old fstab and finding that your old root device is not on RAID. : : Instead of specifying modules yourself and hand-tweaking the nash : script, just ask mkinitrd to figure out the correct modules to load : and RAID devices to start on its own, given your chosen boot device, : with the --fstab option. : : mkinitrd --fstab=/newroot/etc/fstab initrd_raid.img 2.6.22.5-76-fc7 That did the trick! Thanks a lot, Ian. Dean - 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
