Re: new array not starting

[Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>]

Robin Bowes wrote:
> 
> Well, at the risk of having a complete conversation with myself, I've
> created partitions of type "fd" on each disk and re-created the array
> out of the partitions instead of the whole disk.
> 
> mdadm --create /dev/md2 --auto=yes --raid-devices=8 --level=6 /dev/sdc1
> /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1
> 
> I'm hoping this will enable the array to be auto-detected and started at
> boot.

That seemed to do the trick.

I left the array to build overnight and rebooted this morning, and
/dev/md2 started normally.

R.