On 11-01-31 8:47 PM, Andrew Reid wrote:
The easy way out is to boot from a rescue disk, fix the mdadm.conf
file, rebuild the initramfs, and reboot.
The Real Sysadmin way is to start the array by hand from inside
the initramfs. You want "mdadm -A /dev/md0" (or possibly
"mdadm -A -u<your-uuid>") to start it, and once it's up, ctrl-d out
of the initramfs and hope. The part I don't remember is whether or
not this creates the symlinks in /dev/disk that your root-fs-finder
is looking for.
All's well. After the "Real Sysadmin" way got me into the system
one-time-only, I could do the "easy way" which is more permanent without
needing a rescue disk. Thank you so much.
I have one more question, just out of curiousity so bottom priority.
Why does this work? mdadm.conf is in the initramfs which is in /boot
which is on /dev/md0, but /dev/md0 doesn't exist until the arrays are
assembled, which requires mdadm.conf.
David
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