Hi Marc,
The reason your software RAID is not starting automatically on boot is
because you need to remake your initrd image. I have had this same issue
before and it is easy to fix. From the title of your post I assume you
are running RHEL ES v3. With your software RAID running (i.e. "cat
/proc/mdstat" shows md0) run this command as root:
mkinitrd -f "/boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img" "`uname -r`"
This will recreate the initrd image and will allow software RAID 1 to
start on boot. Then you can remove the:
mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0
mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /home/apps
from rc.local and remove the noauto from the fstab.
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Thanks this solved things. Here is my recap. It seems that I was chasing
"witch came first, the chicken or the egg". I will try to explain as
best as I can.
When running the procedure in previous posts, it would get me to work
only after creating the /dev/md0 device, witch I could mount and use
till I re-booted.
Now, the interesting part.
while trying to run mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf would fail
because mdadm was not started. So no config file no start. I rebuilt the
device, but before re-booting I ran the command and it populated the
mdadm.conf file except for my DEVICE /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 Line. I guess
that after building md0 with mdadm, it actually starts mdadm. This
explains why it only worked after a new build of md0. So now I have the
mdadm.conf file and entered the following into rc.local
mdadm --assemble --scan /dev/md0
mount -t ext3 /dev/md0 /home/apps
I then got some errors at boot up because I had not set /dev/md0 in
fstab to be noauto.
All is well now. Thanks to Cleber and Eric to have the patients to stick
with me on this long one, but not all is lost as I have learned a lot
through this whole thing. Even after 20 years in computers (only 3 with
Linux) we learn new stuff.
Again many thanks
Marc
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