From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: Raid array is not automatically detected. Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:06:43 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <4697E231.3070906@hp.com> <4698D4FC.2060100@tmr.com> <469B7E75.3030907@hp.com> <469B8D05.1080003@dgreaves.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: dean gaudet Cc: David Greaves , Bryan Christ , Bill Davidsen , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, dean gaudet wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Greaves wrote: > >> Bryan Christ wrote: >>> I do have the type set to 0xfd. Others have said that auto-assemble only >>> works on RAID 0 and 1, but just as Justin mentioned, I too have another box >>> with RAID5 that gets auto assembled by the kernel (also no initrd). I >>> expected the same behavior when I built this array--again using mdadm >>> instead of raidtools. >> >> Any md arrays with partition type 0xfd using a 0.9 superblock should be >> auto-assembled by a standard kernel. > > no... debian (and probably ubuntu) do not build md into the kernel, they > build it as a module, and the module does not auto-detect 0xfd. i don't > know anything about slackware, but i just felt it worth commenting that "a > standard kernel" is not really descriptive enough. > > -dean > You're correct-- however, I build out my own kernel. Justin.