On 7/11/2011 2:57 AM, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 06:44:21PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> >> Moral of this story: Using live CDs to troubleshoot Linux RAID arrays, >> LVM volumes, dmcrypt, etc, is tricky at best, fraught with disaster at >> worst. Always have a "system rescue" CD/DVD built from the particular >> machine in question at the ready. Most distros have a facility for >> building such a per machine boot/rescue CD. Such media will have the >> same kernel and module versions, the system's mdadm configuration, and >> all other system specific stuff needed to properly troubleshoot and repair. >> >> If such rescue media had been used the OP would have likely experienced >> far less grief, and might already had this problem fixed. > > A live CD like grml can properly auto-start a md array. My problem > came from doing a --create instead of an --assemble at some point. What did it not auto-start your md array in this case again? -- Stan -- 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