From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: KwangErn Liew Subject: Re: Converting system to raid Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:10:30 +0200 Message-ID: <49DF0D06.8030705@musmo.com> References: <003801c9b96d$21a0f420$0a00a8c0@vorg> Reply-To: admin@musmo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <003801c9b96d$21a0f420$0a00a8c0@vorg> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Timothy D. Lenz" Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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? KwangErn