From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Massimiliano Masserelli Subject: Re: RAID1 root - troubles booting in degraded mode Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:10:44 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021030111044.GA5337@sgabanaz.interim.it> References: <4D618F6493CE064A844A5D496733D66703142F@freedom.icomedias.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D618F6493CE064A844A5D496733D66703142F@freedom.icomedias.com> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Martin Bene wrote: > This look like you're initializing the array from an initrd using > raidstart. Indeed I am. > Reason why it's not working: raidstart is stupid. it just reads the > first device from raidtab and tries to read the raid superblock from > there. if the first device listed in raidtab doesn't work, raidstart > can't start the array. Pity I didn't find this little detail in any of the docu I found and read... Thank you very very much for the hint, I'll make some experiments (static raid support vs. mdadm). Bye. -- Massimiliano Masserelli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nella sua prima passione la donna ama il suo amante, in tutte le altre cio` che ama e` il suo amore. -- Byron, "Don Juan"