Goswin...You are So my hero right now... Earlier I had I checked to make sure that the devices were listed, but I was unfamiliar with that command you gave, so a manpage'd it. I deleted the devices, reset them, and restarted...the whole thing is working now! Thank you so much, ~Stack~
________________________________ From: Goswin von Brederlow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/9/2005 6:58 AM To: Stackpole, C Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: can't mount raid 5 after installation "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
