On Wednesday, May 25, 2011 09:54:32 am Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 5/25/2011 8:19 AM, John McMonagle wrote: > > Just upgraded a poweredge 1850 server from Debian lenny to squeeze and > > can not boot with the new 2.6.32 kernel. > > > > From lspci have this controller: > > SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 PCI-X > > Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08) > > > > > > Running mdadm raid with root on md0. > > > > Normally run xen but all info is for when running without xen. > > > > I can still boot with the 2.6.26 kernel but not with the new 2.6.32 > > kernel. Under 2.6.32 it fails to start md0. > > in the busy box console > > Can see all the needed partitions. > > What was sda and sdb are now sdb and sdc that should not matter?? > > mdadm.conf is: > > DEVICE partitions > > CREATE owner=root group=disk mode=0660 auto=yes > > HOMEHOST <system> > > MAILADDR xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx > > ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > > UUID=6f744c89:d2578f95:c150b018:d9f789b1 > > ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 > > UUID=7938d59c:28a69e5e:3facbdc2:12974557 > > This is probably due to udev changes. What device is now sda? > > Using drive UUIDs instead of /dev/sdx in your arrays should fix this. I think sda is a cd or virtual cd now. In the mdadm.conf it uses uuids and no /dev/sdx references or are you referring to something else? John -- 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