On Thursday 25 August 2005 7:14 pm, you wrote:
> Fdisk it and set partitions to Raid Autodetect (0xfd) possibly?
>
> Tyler.
Nope already set fd....
> Lewis Shobbrook wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >I have a problem attempting to boot a raid 1 system from lilo. I have
> >succeeded at this many times in the past, but am completely stumped as to
> >what the issue is in this instance. I have the boot and root partitions
> >seperate on /dev/md0 & /dev/md1 respectively, both raid1.
> >The mdadm examination for the components is clean and the superblocks
> > appear as they ought. I'm using Debian unstable with std. apt
> > kernel-image. The correct modules are in place for the initrd.
> >The boot partition fails to mount during the boot process...
> >fsck.ext3: invalid argument while trying to open /dev/md0
> >The superblock can not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
> >filesystem.... omitted usual stuff...
> >Root password for maintenance or Control-D to continue...
> >
> >The bizarre thing is that it appears perfectly clean, I've re-zero'd the
> >superblocks and completely recreated the device, but the result is always
> > the same.
> >mdrun loads /dev/md0 in a clean state straight away and it mounts
> >cleanly. /dev/md1 is no problem.
> >mdadm -E of the components is clean, as is mdadm -d for the device.
> >My fstab & mtab are the same as systems running the same kernel that work
> >fine.
> >
> >I found the system laying around from about 12 months ago which had
> > originally been set-up using raidtools. I upgraded the system using
> > dist-upgrade installed mdadm; after zeroing all superblocks for both
> > drives and component partitions, I created the devices with the following
> > ...
> >
> >mdadm -C /dev/md0 -l1 -n2 /dev/hda1 missing
> >reformatted ext3 and restored the files before adding the missing devices
> > and resyncing.
> >I'm stumped!
> >Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Lewis
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