Hi guys,
I upgraded one of my computers to Ubuntu Gutsy with aptitude recently
(the update-manager -d method refused to work), and am now unable to
boot my computer into the new kernel (thankfully one of the old ones
still works).
The problem is that my raid devices aren't coming up (the whole system,
root included, is on RAID1). I can confirm this by waiting for the
"waiting for root" timeout during boot, and inspecting the system from
the shell that comes up. The device files exist (/dev/md5 is the
important one), but the array has not been assembled. I can manually
assemble it at this point, and then mount it successfully. Haven't tried
booting from that stage yet.
So, any ideas on how I can get RAID working on this machine? It was
setup by the ubuntu alternative installer from 7.04 (on Jeff's sage
advice). I've looked around and the two common remedies (removing evms
and adding arbitrary sleep times to initramfs) don't help (evms wasn't
ever there, and the /dev/md5 *file* exists; it just hasn't been
assembled.
Any help appreciated; as this is the second machine I've broken by
installing Gutsy, I'm beginning to believe that I'm cursed! And the next
machine to get this upgrade is the important one. That will be gutsy
indeed.
Thanks.
James.
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