From: Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker@oldum.net>
To: shaun.reich@kdemail.net
Cc: Shaun Reich <predator106@gmail.com>,
Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Raid5 boot failure after grow
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:06:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E27FA2C.9070207@oldum.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADVynFDJO3_87ub-qfKK-0JWOB0nYK5P7=Au7fhcd+LEQkP=OA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi,
did you actually chroot into the grown array before updating your initramfs image?
BTW what is on the raid5? Is it the / fs?
Cheers,
- -N
On 07/20/2011 07:39 PM, Shaun Reich wrote:
> Do you happen to know how to rebuild it when I can't boot into it?
> I've tried booting into a livecd, mounting the raid volume and the
> /boot, running 'dracut --mdadmconf "initramfs-$(uname -r).img" $(uname
> -r)', copying the generated initramfs into the separate /boot
> partition, and making grub try to boot it, but it simply is not
> working.
>
> It seems to be because it's actually using the livecd's kernel and
> mods, which is rather unfortunate and would probably be why it is
> unable to boot. I've also tried simply doing it from the livecd (with
> the proper mdadm.conf) and then copying that file (from the livecd),
> into /boot. That at least gets me from a blank blinking cursor, to a
> message about a failed modprobe attempt for /lib/modules, prior to
> falling back to a shell.
>
> Ideas?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-21 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-19 22:43 Raid5 boot failure after grow Shaun Reich
2011-07-19 23:07 ` Phil Turmel
2011-07-20 16:39 ` Shaun Reich
2011-07-20 17:16 ` Phil Turmel
2011-07-21 10:06 ` Nikolay Kichukov [this message]
2011-07-21 15:18 ` Shaun Reich
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