From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jimmy Hedman Subject: Re: Problem with auto-assembly on Itanium Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:03:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1110449024.12242.2.camel@localhost> References: <1110364128.14707.19.camel@localhost> <20050309164352.GB21635@percy.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20050309164352.GB21635@percy.comedia.it> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Luca Berra Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:43 +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:28:48AM +0100, Jimmy Hedman wrote: > >Is there any way i can make this work? Could it be doable with mdadm in > >a initrd? > > > mdassembled was devise for this purpose. > > create an /etc/mdadm.conf with > echo "DEVICE partitions" >> /etc/mdadm.conf > /sbin/mdadm -D -b /dev/md0 | grep '^ARRAY' >> /etc/mdadm.conf > > copy the mdadm.conf and mdassemble to initrd > make linuxrc run mdassemble. So there are no way of doing it the same way i386 does it, ie scanning the partitions and assembly the raid by it self? Is this a bug on the itanium (GPT partition scheme) or is this intentional? // Jimmy > L. >