Hmm, well, I'm certainly not positive why it wouldn't boot and I don't have
the logs in front of me, but I do remember it saying that it couldn't mount
/dev/md1 and therefore had a panic during boot. My solution was to specify
the root device as /dev/sda1 instead of the configured /dev/md1 from the
lilo prompt.
The disk is marked to auto raid start and marked as fd. And, it booted just
fine until the "dumb" shutdown.
As for a rescue disk I'll put one together. Thanks for the advice.
--Rainer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Robinton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 8:50 AM
> To: Rainer Mager
> Cc: Jakob Ostergaard; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Raid5 with two failed disks?
>
> Whether or not the array is in sync should not make a difference to the
> boot process. I have both raid1 and raid 5 systems that run root raid and
> will boot quite nicely and rsync automatically after a "dumb" shutdown
> that leaves them out of sync.
>
> Do you have your kernel built for auto raid start?? and partitions marked
> "fd" ?
>
> You can reconstruct you existing array by booting with a kernel that
> supports raid and with the raid tools on the rescue system. Do it all the
> time.
>
> Michael
>
