Hi, On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:53 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > I have 2x IBM xSeries 346 servers, one has a RAID card (let's call this > machine "346a") and the other only has onboard SCSI (346b). > > [..] it stops at a > special initramfs sh after giving up on the lvm volume group (not found) ... > from there I can activate the md0 and md1 mirrors and activate the lvm2 > logical volumes, I then exit the sh and boot continues as normal. > > I've checked the kernel and module files for each machine, they are 100% > identical. I've checked all files in /boot and /boot/grub and the > differences don't give me any clues.
Your problem is probably inside your /boot/initrd... file You might want to "rebuild" it, using update-initramfs Also, did you read /usr/share/doc/mdadm/rootraiddoc.97.html (which is outdated, but gives good overview) Hope this helps, Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org