I reformatted the disks in preparation to my move to a RAID1/RAID5
combination. I couldn't --stop the array (that should have told me
something), so I removed ARRAY from mdadm.conf and restarted. I ran
fdisk to create the proper partitions, and then I removed the /dev/md*
and /dev/md/* entries in anticipation of creating the new ones. I then
rebooted to pick up the new partitions I'd created.
Now I can no longer boot, with this series of messages:
md: md_import_device returned: -22
md: mdadm failed to add /dev/sdb2 to /dev/md/all: invalid argument
mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md/all: invalid argument
md: sdc2 has invalid sb, not importing!
Thousands of these go past, and there's no escape. That's quite a severe
error. I'm going to boot on a rescue disk to fix this -- there's no
other way I can think of to get out of this mess -- but I wonder if
there ought to be documentation on the interaction between mdadm and
update-initramfs.
--
Moshe Yudkowsky * moshe@xxxxxxxxx * www.pobox.com/~moshe
"Becoming the biggest banana republic in the world -- and without the
bananas, at that -- is an unenviable prospect."
-- Sergei Stepashin, Prime Minister of Russia
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