From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761417AbXGDNxU (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759494AbXGDNxK (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:53:10 -0400 Received: from mail03.hansenet.de ([213.191.73.10]:34559 "EHLO webmail.hansenet.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759122AbXGDNxJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:53:09 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1205 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:53:09 EDT Message-ID: <468BA187.3080703@e-dict.net> Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:32:55 +0200 From: Ingo Freund User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: md device files missing at boot time Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi folks, one of the systems I'm working with was changed (copied) from single (scsi - sda1) to multiple disk (raid1) (sdb1,sdc1 --> md0). When I try to boot from the new created md-device it stops with: ... loading reiserfs "Waiting for device /dev/md0 to appear: ........ not found -- Exiting to /bin/sh A # ls -la /dev/md* shows nothing, so I understand why the "/" cannot be mounted, but where are the /dev/md* files (I found them in "/lib/udev/devices")? The kernel is vanilla 2.6.21.5, the (I think) needed hardware and filesystem drivers are built in modules and put into an initrd file for loading at boot time. Does anyone have an idea what I might do wrong? Thanks - Ingo.