Do you have the lsi fusion kernel driver installed? -- W. Nick Pappin
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Thanks for your reply. I did change the type of the partitions on > both disks to fd linux raid autodetect. When i rebooted in to the live CD i > gave it the mdadm -A /dev/md3 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 it found both drives and > brought them up. I was then able to mount the array. > In my kernel config file i do have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 set to Y. > I've just tried compiling a genkernel and got the same error when i tried > to > load it. Any suggestions welcome. > Thanks. > Dave. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Pappin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks > > A couple of things when you reboot into the live cd you need to tell mdadm > to assemble the drive /dev/md3 with the command mdadm -A /dev/md3 /dev/sda3 > /dev/sdb3. As for the booting problem i think it may be that you are > missing > a driver did you put the md raid 1 driver into the kernel. Last Neil has a > point when you ran fdisk did you change the partition type to auto detect > raid. > > -- > W. Nick Pappin > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:07:04 -0400, Dave wrote: > > > Upon reboot i'm seeing mdadm > > trying to detect the two disks, and not succeeding, > > > Did you set the partition type to Linux RAID Autodetect (FD)? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. > > > > > >
