On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Till Mommsen wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> got a problem again.... (Kernel 2.0.36 with the raid0145-19990128-2.0.36,
> raidtools 0.9):
> What happened so far:
> Installed Linux on sda1-6, patched the Kernel, installed RAID Tools,
> realized that RAID has to be set up from a different disk, therefore
> attached an old DIE disk, moved installation there, booted from floppy,
> erased sda and sdb with fdisk, booted again (must be an old Windows habit),
> used fdisk again and created two identical setups (see output).
>
> First problem: verifying partition table gets me a message partition 3 is
> overlapping partition 4.
>
> Wrote partition table anyway and rebooted.
I just went through some headaches like this... I was unable to get raid
running with partition type fd until AFTER a successfull "mkraid" ...
otherwise I got inode in use messages when trying to initialize the
array...
(e.g. booting with partitions set to fd that haven't been initialized
seems to tie up an inode and prevent subsequent initialization... the fix
is to change to another partition type... reboot ... initialize (mkraid)
... set the partition types back to fd ... problem fixed, continue as you
will)
