On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Sion Dafydd wrote:
> I've come into posesion of a spare 40 GB drive which I want to use to > hold the boot, swap and root partitions, while the two 250GB disks > mirror one large partition. Well, for some reason using this > configuration /dev/md0 does not get initilaized on boot. When I try to > mount it manually I get a "mount: /dev/md0: can't read superblock" > error. If I run "/etc/init.d/mdadm-raid start" from the command line the > raid array gets initilaized and everything is fine. Anybody know of a > reason/fix for this? your raid drivers is not being insmod'd before it starts booting if /dev/md0 is needed for booting ( / is in /dev/md0 ) than you'd need to change your initrd.gz to insmod/modprobe the raid drivers or you can put the modprobe commands in /etc/init.d/rc or any where before the systems starts reading /etc/fstab looking for / c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]