From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: How to start SW raid later in boot? Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:44:52 -0500 Message-ID: <498B33A4.3090505@tmr.com> References: <20090204193039.M36676@estone.ca> <498A0D0E.70000@musmo.com> <20090205112014.M278@estone.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20090205112014.M278@estone.ca> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: michael Cc: linuxraid List-Id: linux-raid.ids michael wrote: > On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:47:58 +0100, KwangErn Liew wrote > > >> Do you have initrd enabled? >> >> > > I believe I do, its a standard install of Debian stable. > For now, I suppose I can do as the last poster suggested and > run a startup script to assemble the array, and mount it. > > I will look more into the driver as its a 3rd party loaded module. > Perhaps it can be setup to load earlier in the boot. > If you put the module into the initrd (see man mkinitrd) you can get it loaded early. You may be able to prevent early start by changing the partition types (unlikely) or keeping the md device out of fstab and starting and mounting it from rc.local. I would go initrd. -- Bill Davidsen "Woe unto the statesman who makes war without a reason that will still be valid when the war is over..." Otto von Bismark