At 09:50 AM 4/13/99 -0400, Joe Beauchamp wrote:
>Yeah, I tried a bunch of stuff -- I'm looking for someone who actually has
>it working and can tell me how to start from one of these kernels and
>really make it start. But thanks for the thought -- Joe B.
I've done it a few times, each with a lot of trial and error. One of the
problems is caused by failed auto-detect leaving an open inode so nothing
else will work.
Try setting partition type to 83 (Linux native), not fd. This may prevent
auto-detection (and failure) so that you can mkraid. I have the following
in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, although the exact script name will vary depending
upon the distribution (I use Redhat 5.2):
# Add raid devices
insmod raid0
insmod raid5
raidstart -a
This replaces with (0.50 compliant) RAID commands provided by RedHat.
Sometimes, for maintenance purposes, you will need to comment out those
three lines to avoid the open-inode problem so that you can work on a RAID
before it is started. Note that you seldom see an explanation that
mentions open-inode, just a failure message with no explanation.
--Mike
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