On Sunday 13 November 2005 17:23, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/12/05, Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 01:49, Brian Parish wrote: > > > I am trying to add a software RAID 5 disk set to an existing machine > > > installed using genkernel. All the RAID support is compiled into the > > > kernel, but no /dev/md? device files exist. I can create these using > > > mknod and make the RAID, but they don't survive a reboot. How do I tell > > > udev to create these files as persistant devices? > > > > All partitions in the RAID set need to be set to partition type fd (Linux > > raid autodetect), then the kernel will build the arrays during startup. > > FYI, this is only true if the raid drivers are compiled into the > kernel (no modules), and you do _not_ use an initramfs to boot the > system. If you use an initramfs, the kernel skips the autodetection > of raid arrays. > > -Richard
I did and it does (skip that is). Thanks again Richard. Brian -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list