raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

2010-02-06 Thread Dr . KERÉKGYÁRTÓ István
[sorry if I post multiple times, but my message did not seem to get across, and moderation isn't supposed to last half a day] Dear All, I have a system with a raid1 array. I installed it first with a degraded raid array, one part of the array being /dev/hda2. After installation I added (mdadm

Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

2010-02-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Dr. KER?KGY?RT? Istv?n wrote: [sorry if I post multiple times, but my message did not seem to get across, and moderation isn't supposed to last half a day] Dear All, I have a system with a raid1 array. I installed it first with a degraded raid

Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

2010-02-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dr. KERÉKGYÁRTÓ István ugy...@kerekgyarto.hu [2010.02.07.0759 +1300]: Is there a way to tell the initramfs in which order to detect the drives it needs (so that both sda and hda would be detected, with the appropriate modules loaded, and only after that would the raid array be

Re: raid on mixed ide/sata drives (/dev/hda /dev/sda) not assembled at boot with initramfs

2010-02-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au [2010.02.07.0952 +1300]: strange, trying changing your kernel options to init=/bin/bash this will give you a command prompt when the initrd is loaded, but before anything is done. check to see what can be seen by the system, can it see hda + sda