Re: md/mdadm fails to properly run on 2.6.15 after upgrading from 2.6.11

["Marc L. de Bruin" <marc@debruin.org>]

dean gaudet wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Marc L. de Bruin wrote:
> 
>> dean gaudet wrote:
>>
>>> initramfs-tools generates an "mdrun /dev" which starts all the raids it can
>>> find... but does not include the mdadm.conf in the initrd so i'm not sure it
>>> will necessarily start them in the right minor devices.  try doing an "mdadm
>>> --examine /dev/xxx" on some of your partitions to see if the "preferred
>>> minor" is what you expect it to be...
>>>  
>> blah@frodo:~# sudo mdadm --examine /dev/md[01234]
> 
> try running it on /dev/sda1 or whatever the component devices are for your 
> array... not on the array devices.
> 
> -dean

Briljant, that turned out to work.

However, all "preferred minor"s are correct, meaning that the output is in 
sync with what I expected it to be from /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf.

Any other ideas? Just adding /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf to the initrd does not 
seem to work, since mdrun seems to ignore it?!

Marc.