Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:22:29PM -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: > >> Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On > >> boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before > >> the others are seen. (Th

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: >> Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On >> boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before >> the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am >> transitioning fr

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Reid
> Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On > boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before > the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am > transitioning from USB to eSATA, and the one eSATA disk is seen before an

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/21/2011 09:08 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am transitioning from USB to eSATA,

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gregory Seidman [2011.02.21.1651 +0100]: > > Add rootdelay=10 to the kernel command line in lilo.conf, provided you > > are using a recent initramfs. > > I don't think that will do what I want. The RAID in question is > not my root filesystem. That does not matter; it gives the init

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 04:38:29PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gregory Seidman > [2011.02.21.1608 +0100]: > > Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started > > degraded? On boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is > > started before the others ar

Re: RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gregory Seidman [2011.02.21.1608 +0100]: > Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On > boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before > the others are seen. Add rootdelay=10 to the kernel command line in lilo.conf, provided

RAID start at boot

2011-02-21 Thread Gregory Seidman
Is there a way to make sure my RAID (level 1) won't be started degraded? On boot, one disk is found before the others, and the RAID is started before the others are seen. (They are seen at different times because I am transitioning from USB to eSATA, and the one eSATA disk is seen before any USB di