From: Forrest Taylor <ftaylor@redhat.com>
To: Peter Lauda <plauda@rx30.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: still a boot issue
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:33:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131129189.18407.44.camel@maddy.taylor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1131123603.4595.11.camel@plauda5.rx30.com>
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 11:59 -0500, Peter Lauda wrote:
> I have been making some progress with my attempted raid1 of boot and
> root... but I just can't get it to boot. I have looked at several docs
> and tried umpteen times to tweak based on suggestions and documentation.
> So if there is any other advice out there.. please... I am near the end
> of my rope.
>
> I have a system with two sata drives and a 2.4.29 kernel w/mdadm and the
> md driver in the kernel. I see the raid personalities in /proc/mdstat
> when the system boots.
>
> I have added a kernel parm md=1,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 to my grub.conf
> line.
>
> When I boot the system it fails to setup the array md1 because it cannot
> read the superblock for the array. Is this because the /dev/sda3 fs is
> already loading or mounted?
>
> An entry in /var/log/messages tells me:
>
> md: could not lock [08:03] zero size?
I haven't been following your thread, but did you include the raid1
module in your initrd.img, or did you build it into the kernel?
Forrest
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2005-11-04 16:59 still a boot issue Peter Lauda
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