Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: maximilian attems wrote: error 15 is an *grub* error. grub is known for it's dislike of xfs, so with this whole setup use ext3 rerun grub-install and you should be fine. I should mention that something *did* change. When attempting to use XFS, grub would give me a

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-07 Thread Bill Davidsen
Bill Davidsen wrote: Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: maximilian attems wrote: error 15 is an *grub* error. grub is known for it's dislike of xfs, so with this whole setup use ext3 rerun grub-install and you should be fine. I should mention that something *did* change. When attempting to use XFS,

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:59:44PM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: Problem: on reboot, the I get an error message: root (hd0,1) (Moshe comment: as expected) Filesystem type is xfs, partition type 0xfd (Moshe comment: as expected) kernel /boot/vmliuz-etc.-amd64 root=/dev/md/boot ro Error

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 02:59:44PM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: I've managed to get myself into a little problem. Since power hits were taking out the /boot partition, I decided to split /boot out of root. Working from my emergency partition, I copied all files from /root, re-partitioned

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Moshe Yudkowsky
Robin Hill wrote: File not found at that point would suggest it can't find the kernel file. The path here should be relative to the root of the partition /boot is on, so if your /boot is its own partition then you should either use kernel /vmlinuz or (the more usual solution from what I've

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Moshe Yudkowsky
maximilian attems wrote: error 15 is an *grub* error. grub is known for it's dislike of xfs, so with this whole setup use ext3 rerun grub-install and you should be fine. I should mention that something *did* change. When attempting to use XFS, grub would give me a note about 18 partitions

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Hill
On Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 02:59:44PM -0600, Moshe Yudkowsky wrote: I've managed to get myself into a little problem. Since power hits were taking out the /boot partition, I decided to split /boot out of root. Working from my emergency partition, I copied all files from /root, re-partitioned

Re: using update-initramfs: how to get new mdadm.conf into the /boot? Or is it XFS?

2008-02-04 Thread Moshe Yudkowsky
I wrote: Now it's failed in a different section and complains that it can't find /sbin/init. I'm at the (initramfs) prompt, which I don't ever recall seeing before. I can't mount /dev/md/root on any mount points (invalid arguments even though I'm not supplying any). I've checked /dev/md/root