Hi,
have you set the partition type of the raid member partitions to 0xfd???
Otherwise the autodetection doesn't work.
Thomas
>
> I've got a problem activating my RAID-Devices at bootup.
>
> Situation:
> -newest Kernel Patches in Kernel 2.2.10
> -newest raid-tools compiled and used
> -boot-support and automatic RAID support activated in kernel
> -created an RAID-0 Device using mkraid
> -my /etc/raidtab looks like this:
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 0
> nr-raid-disks 3
> nr-spare-disks 0
> persistent-superblock 1
> chunk-size 4
>
> device /dev/sda1
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/sdb1
> raid-disk 1
> device /dev/sdc1
> raid-disk 2
>
> -now after rebooting linux dmesg says that raid personalitys are
registerd and
> at least:
>
> Partition check:
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 >
> sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 < sdb5 >
> sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 < sdc5 >
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> .. autorun DONE.
>
> -logging in and saying mount /dev/md0 /mnt/test-raid says:
>
> /dev/md0 Device is not configured
> Bad md_map in ll_rw_block
> FAT bread failed
> you must specify a filesystem
>
> -BUT if I run raidstart /dev/md0 and then the mount command everything
works
> fine and I can use my RAID-0 Device
>
> ->thats not so bad, because I can add an raidstart /dev/md0 at any
> startup-script before mounting the filesystems, but I want to use my
RAID
> Device as the / (root) partition --> but this is not working.
>
> -if I say loadlin bzimage root=/dev/md0
> md=0,0,0,0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sc1 ro vga=7 I got the same error
message:
> bad md_map in ll_rw_block
>
> I don't know what to do now.
>
> Do you have any hints or got the same error in previous times?
>
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks in advance, Niels.
>
>
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