"Stackpole, C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey Guys,
> I am having a similar problem and not having much luck getting it to work
> either. I followed through the suggestions listed previous and am not getting
> anywhere.
> This is where I am at. I did a install with the 2.6 kernel on a system with a
> 60 gig drive (/dev/hda) set as my root and swap. I have 4 120 gig drives set
> up in a RAID5 (/dev/hde, /dev/hdg, /dev/hdi, /dev/hdk). I had the same
> problem where I would get it set up, and it would fail on reboot.
>
> I just tried the dpgk-reconfigure mdadm, and it failed saying that it could
> only find hde and hdg! So I looked, Debian is seeing all the drives
> (/proc/ide). All of the drives are listed as being setup for RAID. The
> /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf have been setup as demonstrated earlier in the thread.
> If I try to mount the drives as individual drives, it has no problems
> whatsoever. Just doesn't like to see them when I set them up as RAID5.
>
> I have been going slightly insane these past few days trying to figure out
> why it can see all the drives but will not when I try to mount it as RAID5. I
> am not certain what to do next...
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ~Stack~
You are probably just missing the device nodes in /dev. The installer
uses devfs, which creates device nodes automatically, while the
installed system does not and only comes with hda - hdh.
>From memory:
cd /dev
MAKEDEV hdi
MAKEDEV hdk
MfG
Goswin
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