From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: James Brown <jbrown@orange.net>
Subject: Re: Newbie: Kernel panic during RAID1 test & reboot loses one disk
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:08:27 +0200
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James Brown wrote:

> [...]
> There is no mdadm/mdadm.conf! What I should do about this?

Having just read the post from Andreas Pelzner, perhaps I should create 
a new initrd:

 > Andreas Pelzner wrote:
> you told me the rigt way. I had to add the lines "raid1" and "md_mod" to
> /etc/mkinitrd/modules. After recreating the initrd image "mkinitrd -o
> /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17.8 /lib/modules/2.6.17.8" the server boots into
> both raid disk correctly.

I don't understand the "raid1" or "md_mod" steps here. Could anyone 
explain please?

Regards,

James.