On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Marc Auslander <marca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm still having no luck booting an mdadm 1.2 root. > > grub2 works - I get into the boot kernel and initram. But when it > comes to mount the real kernel, I fall into initramfs shell with a > message that the kernel can't be found. And it can't, because the > raid root device hasn't been assembled. (No raid devices exist in > /dev). > > I can assemble it in initramfs shell using mdadm, so all the stuff is there. > > So I really need to see any grub.cfg stanza that actually works - > mostly to see what vmlinuz parameters are needed.
It think that it's your initrd that needs some attention... Anyway, from a wheezy install: menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod gzio insmod raid insmod mdraid1x insmod part_msdos insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(mduuid/ea8a8cde873a9900f6e13b3742a475ca)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root e201fc61-91dd-4657-a703-0f7802df62c7 echo 'Loading Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1-686-pae root=UUID=e201fc61-91dd-4657-a703-0f7802df62c7 ro echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.1.0-1-686-pae } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=szqy7kdnmj+p6s8uzk3rhqzzoaf9cuknwmos85zcvv...@mail.gmail.com