Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.0750 +0200]: it is indeed what is happening. the local-top/mdadm script sources conf/md.conf. That file resets the value of MD_MODULES from stuff like raid0 raid1... to 0 1 5 and thus it bombs out on the boot. This must be the

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.0834 +0200]: Can I please see your mdadm.conf file and the generated initramfs? Please put them somewhere where I can download them instead of attaching them to an email. If it turns out to be what I think it is, it should be a trivial

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:34:02AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.0750 +0200]: it is indeed what is happening. the local-top/mdadm script sources conf/md.conf. That file resets the value of MD_MODULES from stuff like raid0

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:46AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.0834 +0200]: Can I please see your mdadm.conf file and the generated initramfs? Please put them somewhere where I can download them instead of attaching them to an

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:40:46AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.0834 +0200]: Can I please see your mdadm.conf file and the generated initramfs? Please put them somewhere where I can download them instead of attaching them to an

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
On 2007-07-10 07:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: patch works. here is set -x output from a domU boot with new initramfs I have reverted the patch and instead put a warning in place: piper:~ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all -t #[314]

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:59:39AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: On 2007-07-10 07:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: patch works. here is set -x output from a domU boot with new initramfs I have reverted the patch and instead put a warning in place: piper:~ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.1908 +0200]: which is sort of vague. the examples further down the manpage do not make use of level= at all to provide a reference. Yes, I saw this. I think the two items taken together rather strongly imply that if one uses

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread David Ayers
martin f krafft schrieb: On 2007-07-10 07:37, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I have reverted the patch and instead put a warning in place: [snip] E: mdadm: levels should be either raid*, linear, or multipath. W: mdadm: falling back to emergency procedure in initramfs. This is a better

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:51:58PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.10.1908 +0200]: which is sort of vague. the examples further down the manpage do not make use of level= at all to provide a reference. Yes, I saw this. I think

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-07-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
reviving an old thread as I have more to add... ping martin krafft... On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.30.1920 +0200]: Failure: failed to load Module 0 no such module Failure: failed to load Module

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
martin, et al, sorry so long in getting back to this. Finally was in a position to work on this a bit. so long sweet uptime. On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:07:21PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.30.1920 +0200]: Failure: failed to load Module 0 no such module Failure: failed to load Module 1 no such module Failure: failed to load Module 5 no such module I

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-03-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.03.30.1920 +0200]: Failure: failed to load Module 0 no such module Failure: failed to load Module 1 no such module Failure: failed to load Module 5 no such module I don't even know what creates those messages. looks like it should

xen, raid and initramfs failure

2007-03-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi guys, I've encountered a problem with my xen/raid setup. My etch box has / on raid 1. When booting either 2.6.18-3 or -4 I get an error when /scripts/local-top/mdadm runs: (paraphrasing) Failure: failed to load Module 0 no such module Failure: failed to load Module 1 no such module Failure: