Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-22 Thread Brendan Simon
Solved the mount problem with Etch :) I had to disable device-mapper. I followed the instructions in the following posting and commented out all references to dm-mod and dm-mirror. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=494987 Cheers, Brendan. Brendan Simon wrote: I'm

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 15:36 +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I'm thinking that the problem may not be the kernel after all. I > rebooted using the 2.6.8 kernel and it still didn't work, so now I'm > thinking it may be something in Etch rather than the kernel ?? > > Should the 2.6.8 Sarge kernel wo

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
I'm thinking that the problem may not be the kernel after all. I rebooted using the 2.6.8 kernel and it still didn't work, so now I'm thinking it may be something in Etch rather than the kernel ?? Should the 2.6.8 Sarge kernel work with an Etch installation ??? It is an upgrade from Sarge to

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:35AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >>mdadm is not installed. > >>My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need > >>mdadm. I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so > >>I presume that shouldn't n

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: mdadm is not installed. My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need mdadm. I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so I presume that shouldn't need it for Etch/2.6.18. My mistake. Were you using an in-tree driver f

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it now fails to boot. Have you checked that "AUTOSTART=true" is set in /etc/default/mdadm? Did you read and follow the instructio

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:34:12AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > > > >>I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it > >>now fails to boot. > >> > >> > >Have you checked that

Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote: > I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it > now fails to boot. > Have you checked that "AUTOSTART=true" is set in /etc/default/mdadm? Did you read and follow the instructions in /usr/share/doc/mdadm/READM

Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

2007-04-19 Thread Brendan Simon
I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it now fails to boot. It is getting stuck because it fails an fsck.ext3 on /dev/sda1. /dev/sda1 is an ADAPTEC RAID card with a number of hard disks. The module dpt_i2o is loaded. None of the i2o_* modules are loaded. I can