Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Xavier Parizet
Try appending md=3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3 to the kernel command line parameters. On 04/04/2010 01:45 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:57 AM, Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com wrote: Try appending md=3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3 to the kernel command line parameters. Thanks. Tried that one last night but no luck, although it does change the message to Unknown-block(9,3) from Unknown-block(9,0). Cheers, Mark

[gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm doing an install roughly following this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml Differences: 1) AMD64 2) A non-RAID Gentoo install already resides /dev/sda 3) I'm doing the RAID install on /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 4) RAID1 only 5) No LVM 6) Shared /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:07:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as the kernel starts looking for the install on /dev/md3. What I'm not understanding is how does the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 16:07 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as the kernel starts looking for the install on /dev/md3. What I'm not understanding is how does the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 16:07:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:    The install is complete but it won't boot. grub finds the kernel and starts booting but then I get the typical VFS file sync error as the kernel starts looking for