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From: Robin Bowes <robin-lists@robinbowes.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new array not starting
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:55:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eisk45$1ef$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eirgp8$rd7$1@sea.gmane.org>

Robin Bowes wrote:
> 
> Well, at the risk of having a complete conversation with myself, I've
> created partitions of type "fd" on each disk and re-created the array
> out of the partitions instead of the whole disk.
> 
> mdadm --create /dev/md2 --auto=yes --raid-devices=8 --level=6 /dev/sdc1
> /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdg1 /dev/sdh1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1
> 
> I'm hoping this will enable the array to be auto-detected and started at
> boot.

That seemed to do the trick.

I left the array to build overnight and rebooted this morning, and
/dev/md2 started normally.

R.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-08 12:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-08  1:59 new array not starting Robin Bowes
2006-11-08  2:12 ` Robin Bowes
2006-11-08  2:37   ` Robin Bowes
2006-11-08  2:52     ` Robin Bowes
2006-11-08 12:55       ` Robin Bowes [this message]
2006-11-08 16:58       ` Bill Davidsen
2006-11-08  2:53     ` Richard Scobie

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