On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:23 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP> >> >> However once I've rebooted using the CD, and even though the machine >> is once again called livecd the RAID is now called /dev/md127. I >> assume, but don't know for sure, that something similar is happening >> when I boot the actual installation, mdadm gives the RAID a different >> name and it's likely not found by my new environment. > > If it is being assembled as md127 even though the host name is livecd, the > implication is that the hostname is not set un after the array is assembled. > Maybe they are done in the initrd in the wrong order? > If you > Â mdadm -S /dev/md127 > Â mdadm -As > from the livecd, does it then assemble as /dev/md3? > It does. >> >> What's the right solution to changing the RAID naming in the >> superblock so that the laptop finds it as local to 'laptop1' and >> mounts it according the fstab? > > I think you are asking how to change the name recorded in the metadata. > When booted into the livecd: > Â mdadm -S /dev/md127 > Â mdadm -A /dev/md3 --update=homehost --homehost=laptop1 /dev/sd[ab]3 > > should do it. > > NeilBrown Thanks Neil. That looks good. I'll now work on making sure I can actually boot the machine and sync into Linux correctly. I appreciate the help. Cheers, Mark -- 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
