Re: raid 1

[jacek <dalgorno@gmail.com>]

i rebuilded , /boot has: initrd.img-2.6.16 ( created by mkinitrd)  , vmlinuz-2.6.16 and everything is set fine in grub (menu.lst file ) , it detects the drives during boot but then somehow want to create raid using old names...

On 5/29/06, Laurent CARON <lcaron@unix-scripts.info> wrote:

jacek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I set up raid 1 during installing system with kernel 2.4.27-2, then i
> used mdadm to create mdadm.conf file . my hard drives was detected as
> /dev/hdc[1-9] /dev/hde[1-9] because the kernel was missing proper
> drivers , so then i compiled new kernel 2.6.16 and drives changed their
> names to /dev/sda[1-9] and /dev/sdb[1-9] after that i could not boot
> from raid at all.  Even if boot from live cd assemble raid with
> /dev/sda[1-9] /dev/sdb[1-9] , create mdadm.conf file with proper names ,
> during the boot it still wanted reassemble raid using /dev/hdc /dev/hde
> names?? , ( of course it complained that it couldn't find these devices ).
> Have you ever had such problem ?
> Any help appreciate
>
> Jacek


you have to rebuild your initrd