From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nikolay Kichukov Subject: Re: Raid5 boot failure after grow Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:06:36 +0300 Message-ID: <4E27FA2C.9070207@oldum.net> References: <4E260E21.5020001@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: shaun.reich@kdemail.net Cc: Shaun Reich , Phil Turmel , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOJ/osAAoJEDFLYVOGGjgXkJQH/2HSfCiRMpTqCy4EPzKEudoi Wa06t862E0HXJuTauHFmtRAYvFV82G7TaRxSPznSDrKsit7FTMPSdzSWGUf9JDHO miFSPaENdB/H6qV1FA1yYX3KcARaihAlqbDX2OcMFaLFr5krRpy8FZ8gBL453JYw SlYl2/UP3q8r+TuobCuy8bwWV3Xv8Iw6UO0SiYZYZAELaASRcnNnnFw+wb21VZI7 HKItkpO6mk/UkQjgbGykSOQjLLBSFUx9MLU1FI+nOwDnlzyyb5/Jnv3zUjWhOC7K lBIz3Sq7E2Jp6XKqZ9kKtTxebRxMybeEsUWJ3GTwQ5HrUryywZ4uGuntP9lWcJY= =nxFq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----