I ran update-initramfs -u to update (which should work for ubuntu jaunty)...should it be needed, since my root partition is not on raid? I didn't need to do it so far with any other cluster change? 2009/8/23 Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 07:19:44PM +0530, Anshuman Aggarwal wrote: > >> Although its not a show stopper, would really appreciate some help on this. >> >> My raid arrays don't start up automatically like they used to after I >> grew them to include the 4th disk (yes, I DID modify the mdadm.conf so >> I'm not sure what's not working here) >> Kernel: 2.6.30.4; mdadm 3.0 (are there any other libraries whose >> version I should be checking also, since I manually upgraded Ubuntu >> Jaunty to mdadm 3.0) >> > <-snip-> >> >> This array starts fine when I do the following: >> >> mdadm -S /dev/md_d1* >> mdadm -A -s >> >> So, if the scan works without any changes in the mdadm, then why >> doesn't it work at boot time? >> > Have you updated the initrd so the new mdadm.conf is available at boot? > > Cheers, > Robin > -- > ___ > ( ' } | Robin Hill <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | > / / ) | Little Jim says .... | > // !! | "He fallen in de water !!" | > -- 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