From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard B. Pyne" Subject: Re: system startup hangs Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:16:12 -0700 Message-ID: <4EE0E2CC.6090107@kinfolk.org> References: <4EDFEACD.3010806@kinfolk.org> <20111208122154.GA12445@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111208122154.GA12445@cthulhu.home.robinhill.me.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 12/8/2011 5:21 AM, Robin Hill wrote: > On Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 03:38:05PM -0700, Richard B. Pyne wrote: >> EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) >> VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 9:0. >> freeing unused kernel memory: 472k freed >> >> at which point it just hangs. No more disk access, no more messages. >> >> I currently have md0 for / md1 for /home md2 for /usr md3 for /var and >> md4 on which I plan on running lvm to allocate to other system needs. >> >> Any advice, insights and/or direction will be greatly appreciated. >> > I've been bitten by this one myself recently. I suspect you've failed to > copy over the required underlying /dev entries. You need at least > /dev/console and /dev/null on the rootfs - at this stage the tmpfs > hasn't been mounted on /dev and udev hasn't created all the dev nodes. > > Cheers, > Robin That was the problem, Thank you very much! Now lilo is telling me that I must have my boot on a RAID1 device even though I have it on a non-raid drive and partition. --Richard