Re: Converting system to raid

[Robin Hill <robin@robinhill.me.uk>]

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On Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:10:30AM +0200, KwangErn Liew wrote:

>
> Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>> Ended with warning: unable to open an initial console. I was able to 
>> scroll back and didn't really see any errors. Don't know if I
>> missed a change to some config file or something else that should be built 
>> into the kernel. I have gone over a lot of "guides" and
>> don't see what is missing.
>
> FYI, I've never been successful in booting RAID without initrd even though 
> all necessary modules are built-in. I guess mdadm.conf requires initrd to 
> kick start?
>
There's no problems booting RAID without initrd - you'll need to make
sure that you're using partitions (rather than whole disks) with type
0xFD, and that the array itself is using version 0.9 superblocks
(otherwise the kernel auto-assembly will fail).

Cheers,
    Robin
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