Re: Problem with md autodetect on Alpha platform?

2004-07-15 Thread J. Dub
Thank you, Steve!!! I got mirrored root without initrd disk, I just start vmlinuz with raid parameters. 0:1/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/md3 console=ttyS1 md=3,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 aboot.conf is taken from non-raid boot partition. Raid for root device is forced to start during start-up. The other

Problem with md autodetect on Alpha platform?

2004-07-14 Thread J. Dub
Hi, I guess this may be Alpha-specific pain... I have a problem autodetecting raid arrays on Debian Alpha. 1. I can start raid by using raidtools and /etc/raidtab 2. I see superblocks are in place (by mdadm -E) 3. Kernel (2.4.26) is compiled with the following parameters CONFIG_MD=y

Re: Problem with md autodetect on Alpha platform?

2004-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 06:08:42PM +, J. Dub wrote: I guess this may be Alpha-specific pain... I have a problem autodetecting raid arrays on Debian Alpha. Software raid autodetection is specific to MS-DOS partition tables. 4. Partitions have fd flag -- 5 partitions: #