On 07/19/2011 06:43 PM, Shaun Reich wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Fedora 15 and I added an additional disk to my raid5 setup > and grew the array to encompass it. It all worked fine and rebuilt and > everything. However, now when I boot my computer I am dropped to a > shell, stating "dracut" (I wonder what that means). Anyways, when in > here I can cat /etc/mdadm.conf and it appears to be an old > configuration file. It lists only 3 raid devices in that > configuration. I now have 4. dracut is the "new" cross-distribution initramfs environment. I'm using it in my gentoo boxes. > If I run mdadm --assemble --scan after removing the config file, it > will automatically find my array and all is well. But this doesn't > solve the fact that it doesn't boot to it. > > dmesg reports "no root device > 'block:/dev/disk/by-uuid/933ac67-98f1-481f-934e-c9af492ba28c' found" > > This is particularly interesting, because blkid lists /dev/md127 > (after I've managed to mount it), as that same UUID. > > fyi, I use GRUB to boot to a /boot partition, which is then supposed > to mount the array. Is there anything obvious that I have missed? Do I > have to rebuild the initrd, or something like that? (since it seems > the fallback shell doesn't preserve any changes to /etc/mdadm.conf). Yes, your initramfs needs a current copy of your mdadm.conf file, if it has any at all. HTH, Phil -- 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
