On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Joe Beauchamp wrote:
> If you got 2.0.35, 36 or 2.2.3 or 2.2.5 of slackware to work (I'm using the
> v36 cdrom for the rest of the system), then please tell me your secret.
> How did you get it set up? So far as the force switch goes, don't you
> think that if I went to the trouble of running strace, patching mkraid,
> building with serveral kernels, that I didn't trying several forms of
> rebuilding the disks? Including making structures to force the need of the
> switch? ;-)
>
> 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.
>
> At 05:35 AM 4/13/99 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >If your command line really was "mkraid /dev/md0" try "mkraid
> --really-force /dev/md0".
> >A message like "All data on /dev/md0 will be destroyed..." will be given
> and after a few seconds the raid will be initialized.
> >Seems that noone read the manpage of mkraid or the readme of the 0.90
> raidtools.
Something simmilar happened to me, and the only solution was to dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/raid_partition for every partition involved in the
raid (I think I even zeroed the whole disk, and repartitioning), once due
to mkraid not initializing properly, another due to a superblock "lock"
that stopped raidstart.
I assume you don't have anything valuable on those
partitions/disks of course, if not, *backup first*, as the 'dd' command
will completely wipe the disk/partition.
I'm using a 2.2.5 kernel, the latest raidtools patch, and a
homebrew merged patch from the "official" 2.2.3 raid patch to apply on a
2.2.5. I have a 0+1 raid.
Also, sb posted that moving/removing the persistent superblock
option from the raidtab file helped him to solve a simmilar lock.
Try if this helps.
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