> Hi All,
>
> I recently 'inherited' the job of having to look after our Linux server.
It
> was working perfectly with a dual IDE RAID1 array, with 3 partitions:
>
> 1. / (mirrored on the other drive but not in RAID)
> 2. /programs (RAID with the other drive as /dev/md0)
> 3. /net_data (RAID with the other drive as /dev/md1)
>
> I then had to move /net_data to a new hard drive - which I did
successfully
> through modifying /etc/fstab, and change the current one to point to
> /usr/spool/imap - for our new mail server. I simply thought this as a case
> of changing the /dev/md1 drive in /etc/fstab to point to the new
directory.
>
> It seems to be working - however every single time I boot the system, it
> comes up with a failure in the RAID array on /dev/md1, and kicks me into
the
> basic 'root login' screen. At this point I do a
>
> 'mdstop /dev/md0'
>
> to stop the drive which ran correctly, and then
>
> 'ckraid --fix /etc/raidtab'
>
> Which seems to fix the problem, but takes half an hour. I can then Ctrl-D
to
> reboot, and it boots fine -- until the next time I have to reboot the
server
> (which happens to be every day).
Okay, I've still got the above problem.. But it seems to be something to do
with the below bug, as specified in this LDP page.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO-1.html#ss1.3
Although this means absolutely nothing to me .. :) Any ideas?
Regards,
Will
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