Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-04-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:07:29 +1100 Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Basically it just states waiting X seconds Please post in public rather than to me privately. If this debate is related to a bug already filed against the Debian package of yaird then cc that bugreport: bug number@bugs.debian.org - and

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-04-24 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:13:42 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 09:07:29 +1100 Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Basically it just states waiting X seconds Please post in public rather than to me privately. Uh, how embarrassing: I thought I was looking in my inbox, but instead was

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:22 am, you wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Is there any way to avoid this requirement for input, so that the system skips the missing drive as the raid/initrd system did previously? what boot

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-04 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
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Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-04 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:22 am, you wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Is there any way to avoid this requirement for input, so that the system skips the missing drive as the raid/initrd system did previously? what boot errors are you getting before it drops you to the

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-03 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
On Friday 03 February 2006 2:02 pm, you wrote: Hi Dean, Thanks for the suggestions. On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, dean gaudet wrote: i've never looked at yaird in detail -- but you can probably use initramfs-tools instead of yaird... i take it all back... i just tried initramfs-tools and it failed

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-03 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Is there any way to avoid this requirement for input, so that the system skips the missing drive as the raid/initrd system did previously? what boot errors are you getting before it drops you to the root password prompt? is it trying to fsck

Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-02 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
Hi All, I'm trying to get my head around the way that the new debian initrd system yaird and mdadm.conf interact. While running raid5 with yaird, I've discovered that if I replace or remove a healthy drive, without manually using mdadm --set-faulty, the system will not reboot. I get startup

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-02 Thread dean gaudet
i've never looked at yaird in detail -- but you can probably use initramfs-tools instead of yaird... the deb 2.6.14 and later kernels will use whichever one of those is installed. i know that initramfs-tools uses mdrun to start the root partition based on its UUID -- and so it should work

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-02 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, dean gaudet wrote: i've never looked at yaird in detail -- but you can probably use initramfs-tools instead of yaird... i take it all back... i just tried initramfs-tools and it failed to boot my system properly... whereas yaird almost got everything right. the main

Re: Raid5 Debian Yaird Woes

2006-02-02 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
On Friday 03 February 2006 1:13 pm, you wrote: Thanks Dean, I'll try this out... i've never looked at yaird in detail -- but you can probably use initramfs-tools instead of yaird... the deb 2.6.14 and later kernels will use whichever one of those is installed. i know that initramfs-tools uses