On (29/06/05 08:25), Kristian Rink wrote: > Hi Mike; > > and, at first, thanks loads for your mail. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > > I found it easier not use the mdadm.conf file at all. I simply deleted > > it. > > However, without it, your partitions and/or disks that are going to be > > used in your raid array must be fdisk'd to type "fd" or Linux Raid > > autodetect. > > > Yeah, I read about this and did this,all partitions to be used within > the array are type "FD". Even though this doesn't seem to change anything. > > > Then create your array, format it, mount it, set it in /etc/fstab and > > reboot. > > It should work. Perhaps give us some details of your /proc/mdstat or > > try hunting through dmesg to see if there any errors when the array is > > trying to be built upon a boot up. > > I'm hardly able to do any diagnostics on that since the information I > get is pretty limited. Basically, I created the array, xfs-formatted it, > put it into fstab and mounted it - worked well. Umounting, remounting > and everything worked as long as the array was running. After rebooting, > the array seemed gone. I don't get any useful error messages, just an > "XFS SB error" when trying to mount the array (which is not running at > this time), and when I try to start the array (mdadm -R /dev/md0), I > just get something like "/dev/md0 has no devices" (though the real > behaviour and message changes differing with the kernel version used). > I had a similar issue a while back and found that I had varying levels of success with different kernels. This one works: 2.6.8-2-686 but I recall having trouble with the install i386 kernel.
A long shot but worth trying a different kernel. Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
