On 24/10/12 02:43, Jivko Sabev wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for the suggestions. I have tried explicitly listing the > devices comprising the /dev/md1 array in mdadm.conf as follows: > > [snip] > # definitions of existing MD arrays > ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.2 UUID=60ea870e:029dcf99:eaae356e:f1c12085 > name=mercury:0 > ARRAY /dev/md1 devices=/dev/md0,/dev/sde1 > [snip] > > but that has yielded no new results. Same issue of the /dev/md1 array > not being present at boot - dumped into initramfs shell. Below is the > relevent info from "dmesg" in the initramfs shell. > > [snip] > Following the leads on the other suggestings, created a partion on md0 > of type FD (Linux Raid auto detect). Reassembled the array, updated > the initrd image but the problem remains. That is the RAID array is > not auto-assembled on boot. Here is the dmesg log > > [snip] > [ 1.958921] md: bind<sdb1> > [ 2.470635] md: bind<sdc1> > [ 2.471928] md: linear personality registered for level -1 > [ 2.875391] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 1000213030400 > [ 2.878472] md0: p1 > [ 2.945002] md: bind<sde1> > [ 4.397985] md: multipath personality registered for level -4 > [ 4.399191] md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 > [ 4.400490] md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 > [ 4.896552] md: raid6 personality registered for level 6 > [ 4.896580] md: raid5 personality registered for level 5 > [ 4.896607] md: raid4 personality registered for level 4 > [ 4.900306] md: raid10 personality registered for level 10 > [ 57.097141] md: md1 stopped. > [ 57.097238] md: unbind<sde1> > [ 57.100051] md: export_rdev(sde1) > [ 75.147783] md: md1 stopped. > [ 75.148555] md: bind<sde1> > [ 75.148909] md: bind<md0> > [ 75.149880] md/raid1:md1: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors > [ 75.150003] md1: detected capacity change from 0 to 1000078639104 > [ 75.170616] md1: unknown partition table > [snip] > > Same problem. The system is in initramfs rescue shell. Array manually > reassembled after which everything works. Please show /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf from within the initramfs (without the comments). I forget what I mentioned I had before, but I have: md1 - 2 disk RAID1 sdc1 sde1 md2 - 2 disk RAID1 sdb1 sdd1 md3 - 2 md linear md1 md2 This is working for me... BTW, my DEVICES line is DEVICE partitions If this matches your DEVICES line, please also send the content of /proc/partitions within your initramfs before you manually make any changes/do anything. Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -- 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