On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Aggelos Kyritsis <filodoksos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear sir/madam, > > I am running ubuntu 9.04. Until recently I used the mdadm version that > exists in the ubuntu repositories, with perfect success. However, > since that version is fairly old (2.6, I think), I decided to install > the latest version 3.0.2. > > On a freshly formatted system with no mdadm I downloaded > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-3.0.2.tar.gz, > unzipped it and run the "sudo make" and "sudo make install" commands. > According to mdadm --version, I succesfuly installed version 3.0.2 of > the program. I was also successful on creating and mounting a fresh > raid 5 array. > > However, the installation didn't create either the > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf or the /etc/mdadm.conf file, where I need to > specify the array details so that it is assembled during boot time. > > I manually created the mdadm.conf file in both locations and added the > "DEVICE partitions" line and a line with the result from mdadm > --examine --scan > > Even though this was enough on the old version of mdadm for auto > assemble during the boot sequence (so that /etc/fstab could mount > /dev/md0), on version 3.0.2 it made no diferrence at all, as if the > mdadm I compiled and installed manually wouldn't read the mdadm.config > file, neither on /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf or on /etc/mdadm.conf > > Is there anything I could do to address this problem? Any way to > permanently point the mdadm to its mdadm.conf file? is there an > mdadm.conf file created on some other location on the disk, where I > can add the array information? > > Thanks in advance > > Kind regards > > Angelos Kyritsis. Hi, I've tried almost exactly the same setup. I suspect that you may simply need to update the initramfs, specifically to place the mdadm.conf in the init-ramdisk. Try "sudo update-initramfs -u -k all". "-u" means update the initrd, "-k all" means to update for all kernels. -- Kristleifur -- 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
