-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gustin Johnson wrote: > Martin Glazer wrote: >> Hi, > >> I'm trying to move 2 drives, setup in a mdraid 1 mirror, from one >> machine to another. The hardware is similar but not exactly the same. > >> I am getting a kernel panic on boot in that it cannot find the ext >> partition.
It sounds like the array is not being initialized after you get past the bootloader. Do you happen to know how the array was built (did they use the whole disk or use partitions)? In the fstab how is the partition referenced? What kernel version (distro and version might also be useful to know)? > >> Any suggestions on how to get this operational again (on the new >> machine, I don't have access to the old any longer)? Do I have to >> recreate the raid array? How? > I am not sure if I was entirely clear before, but I would boot with a live distro, and then try mounting the array to make sure it is all there. I would also check that things like the fstab are appropriate (the device names may have changed), the modern approach is to use /dev/disk/by-uuid or /dev/disk/by-name that will not change from machine to machine (ie. my USB flash drive has the same name from machine to machine because I set and mount via the label field in ext2/3). Hth, PS - I have been a fairly recent convert to the software RAID capabilities. Pretty awesome stuff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkpovNUACgkQwRXgH3rKGfNM6ACgp71o9ZtFZdi+Oc5jVMj/lzqC DqAAn06nnbSs1fowbYHZuBBdwAN8nBd/ =5/9X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
