On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote: > Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no > attempts to start the array until I manually try. > > Any hints on what I'm missing?
Personal experience: 1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use only the latter (I'm not saying you used raidtools, but I found a lot of misleading documentation lying around) 2) check carefully the UUID of *all* the partitions, I had exactly the same issue, that I discovered to be caused by a leftover partition that was part of a different raid set (spurious UUID). At some point in the bootup the correct set were disassembled. 3) evms can badly intefere with mdadm (or it was LVM?): try to modify a partition/raid setup and it always appears busy, preventing any editing. HTH Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.24-gentoo-r4, Compiled #2 PREEMPT Wed Apr 2 08:07:24 CEST 2008 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2004.03 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list