Re: raid=noautodetect is apparently ignored?

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Ian Dall wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 16:38 +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday June 26, ian@beware.dropbear.id.au wrote:
>>     
>>> When I try and disable auto detection, with kernel boot parameters, it
>>> goes ahead and auto assembles and runs anyway. The md= parameters seem
>>> to be noticed, but don't seem to have any other effect (beyond resulting
>>> in a dmesg).
>>>       
>> Odd....
>>  Maybe you have an initrd which is loading md as a module, then
>>  running "raidautorun" or similar?
>>     
>
> I don't think so. lsmod doesn't show a md module (even though md is
> clearly available).
>   

I suspect that the last comment is the clue, after pivotroot I bet it 
runs another init, not from the boot/initrd images, but from the init.d 
in the root filesystem. I seem to remember setting up my systems to 
start all the arrays found, by using PARTITIONS in my config file. Look 
at the setup in /etc /rc.d files for more info.
> Also if I break open the current initrd, init (the script) looks like
> this:
>
> #!/bin/nash
>
> mount -t proc /proc /proc
> setquiet
> echo Mounting proc filesystem
> echo Mounting sysfs filesystem
> mount -t sysfs /sys /sys
> echo Creating /dev
> mount -o mode=0755 -t tmpfs /dev /dev
> mkdir /dev/pts
> mount -t devpts -o gid=5,mode=620 /dev/pts /dev/pts
> mkdir /dev/shm
> mkdir /dev/mapper
> echo Creating initial device nodes
> mknod /dev/null c 1 3
> mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
> mknod /dev/systty c 4 0
> mknod /dev/tty c 5 0
> mknod /dev/console c 5 1
> mknod /dev/ptmx c 5 2
> mknod /dev/rtc c 10 135
> mknod /dev/tty0 c 4 0
> mknod /dev/tty1 c 4 1
> mknod /dev/tty2 c 4 2
> mknod /dev/tty3 c 4 3
> mknod /dev/tty4 c 4 4
> mknod /dev/tty5 c 4 5
> mknod /dev/tty6 c 4 6
> mknod /dev/tty7 c 4 7
> mknod /dev/tty8 c 4 8
> mknod /dev/tty9 c 4 9
> mknod /dev/tty10 c 4 10
> mknod /dev/tty11 c 4 11
> mknod /dev/tty12 c 4 12
> mknod /dev/ttyS0 c 4 64
> mknod /dev/ttyS1 c 4 65
> mknod /dev/ttyS2 c 4 66
> mknod /dev/ttyS3 c 4 67
> echo Setting up hotplug.
> hotplug
> echo Creating block device nodes.
> mkblkdevs
> echo "Loading scsi_mod.ko module"
> insmod /lib/scsi_mod.ko 
> echo "Loading sd_mod.ko module"
> insmod /lib/sd_mod.ko 
> echo "Loading qla1280.ko module"
> insmod /lib/qla1280.ko 
> echo "Loading jbd.ko module"
> insmod /lib/jbd.ko 
> echo "Loading ext3.ko module"
> insmod /lib/ext3.ko 
> echo "Loading dm-mod.ko module"
> insmod /lib/dm-mod.ko 
> echo "Loading dm-mirror.ko module"
> insmod /lib/dm-mirror.ko 
> echo "Loading dm-zero.ko module"
> insmod /lib/dm-zero.ko 
> echo "Loading dm-snapshot.ko module"
> insmod /lib/dm-snapshot.ko 
> mkblkdevs
> resume /dev/sda7
> echo Creating root device.
> mkrootdev -t ext3 -o defaults,ro /dev/sda8
> echo Mounting root filesystem.
> mount /sysroot
> echo Setting up other filesystems.
> setuproot
> echo Switching to new root and running init.
> switchroot
>
>
>   


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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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