(Sorry for the late reply) On 12 Jan 2009, Michal Soltys wrote: > Mika Tiainen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When booting from another disk I can see that the md0 partitions are >> only found later: >> >> md0: p1 p2 >> >> This line shows up after root is already mounted. >> > > I've never used in-kernel raid autodetection (always relying on > initramfs - any reason not to use one ?), Initrd is what I'm using now and it works, but I'd rather get by without initrd as I have no other need for it. > but looking at md.txt from kernel docs, raid=partitionable parameter > should get it done. You might end with md_d0 (as in earlier kernels) > name instead of md0, so adjust root=, fstab, etc. accordingly. raid=partitionable is what I used before, but it doesn't work with these new style partitions. The raid gets detected as md_d0, but no md_d0p1. If this can't be fixed and these new partitionable arrays can't be used as root without initrd it should be documented somewhere. -- Mika Tiainen Always be wary of any helpful item that mikat@xxxxxx weighs less than its operating manual. http://mikat.iki.fi -- (Terry Pratchett, Jingo) -- 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
