Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-16 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Robert L Cochran wrote: And the output of `ls /dev/mapper` Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:44 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've seen, this can be done through initrd/mkinitrd some how, Apparently, I don't understand

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-16 Thread Robert L Cochran
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: And the output of `ls /dev/mapper` Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:44 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've seen, this can be done through initrd/mkinitrd some how,

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-16 Thread Charles Crayne
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:25:59 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: The goal is to get dmraid activated automatically on boot like it once was, and not need to manually activate it and mount the nvidia_gdedfbbjp5 partition. With the info you provided, I think that I now

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Robert L Cochran wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526151 I already have it in /etc/fstab, but /dev/mapper/ device isn't getting created at boot, and so F10 just goes on and auto-mounts the individual drives as separate devices instead of jointly as

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Charles Crayne
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:05:17 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: No other suggestions? Although I have used software raid for several years now, I am not an expert in the subject. In particular, I have never needed to use mkinitrd, because I do not boot from the raid device. Nor

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Robert L Cochran
Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:05:17 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: No other suggestions? Although I have used software raid for several years now, I am not an expert in the subject. In particular, I have never needed to use mkinitrd, because

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Robert L Cochran wrote: Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:05:17 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: No other suggestions? Although I have used software raid for several years now, I am not an expert in the subject. In particular, I have never

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Charles Crayne
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:44 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've seen, this can be done through initrd/mkinitrd some how, Apparently, I don't understand what you are trying to do. I am running software raid on three i386 machines and one x86_64 machine, and I

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-15 Thread Robert L Cochran
And the output of `ls /dev/mapper` Charles Crayne wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:44 -0500 Raymond C. Rodgers sinful...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've seen, this can be done through initrd/mkinitrd some how, Apparently, I don't understand what you are trying to do. I am

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-14 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on my part; this was obviously a while ago, and I'm no expert on mkinitrd. When I installed F10, it wiped

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-14 Thread Robert L Cochran
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526151 Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on my part; this was

Re: dmraid mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

2008-12-14 Thread Raymond C. Rodgers
Robert L Cochran wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=526151 I already have it in /etc/fstab, but /dev/mapper/ device isn't getting created at boot, and so F10 just goes on and auto-mounts the individual drives as separate devices instead of jointly as a dmraid device.