Re: raid6 array , part id 'fd' not assembling at boot .

2007-03-31 Thread Nix
On 19 Mar 2007, James W. Laferriere outgrabe: What I don't see is the reasoning behind the use of initrd . It's a kernel ran to put the dev tree in order , start up devices ,... Just to start the kernel again ? That's not what initrds do. No second kernel is started, and

Re: raid6 array , part id 'fd' not assembling at boot .

2007-03-18 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday March 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: In-kernel auto-assembly using partition type 0xFD only works for metadata=0.90. This is deliberate. Don't use 0xFD partitions. Use mdadm to assemble your array, either via an initrd or (if it don't hold the root

Re: raid6 array , part id 'fd' not assembling at boot .

2007-03-18 Thread Mr. James W. Laferriere
Hello Neil Bill , On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday March 17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Brown wrote: In-kernel auto-assembly using partition type 0xFD only works for metadata=0.90. This is deliberate. Don't use 0xFD partitions. Use mdadm

Re: raid6 array , part id 'fd' not assembling at boot .

2007-03-16 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday March 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All , I am having a dickens of a time with preparing this system to replace my present one . I created a raid6 array over 6 147GB scsi drives . steps I followed were . fdisk /dev/sd[c-h] ( one at a time of course )