At 13:37 2005-05-23, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Moshe Yudkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.23.1956 +0200]:
> The reason I suspected it is because if mdadm.conf has /dev/md3 as the
> device in its ARRAY statement, and I use the notation "mdadm --assemble
> /dev/md/3", then mdadm wouldn't start. It couldn't translate between the
> two. Since /script in initrd.img had this notation, I thought that if I
> moved everything to /dev/md/n style notation, I'd be able to boot -- and I
> could.
"mdadm: /dev/md/3 not identified in config file"
Is this your error?
If yes, then well, tough. I don't think we will fix this anytime
soon. I did file a bug about this though. Note that the problem only
applies to the mdadm call. You should be able to use any of /dev/md3
or /dev/md/3 to mount the device.
Ooof. That may have been the command-line console error. Certainly I get it
now when I try to assemble using /dev/md3, which isn't in the mdadm.conf
any longer. (I doesn't appear in the log files.)
But even so, through some interaction, this particular kernel update failed
to go smoothly -- it left me in a state where I could no longer boot up.
I am *guessing* that the error falls in the cracks between initrd-tools or
lilo (which uses /dev/md/3 intead of what's written in mdadm.conf) and
mdadm (which has this other bug). By converting to what lilo/initrd-tools
prefers, I eliminate the problem.
Why are you manually calling `mdadm --assemble` anyway? Doesn't the
/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid script do everything you need?
It used to! I only called it manually because it failed to work
automatically at startup this time around.
I need more information or I cannot fix this bug. I need to know
exactly when there is a failure assembling RAID devices: at initrd
time, or when mdadm-raid gets called...?
I now have bootlogd enabled; let me know if you need me to reproduce the
error. I don't know how to tell when mdadm-raid gets called, as I've never
seen it in a log file that I can recall.
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