Gordon Thanks for your response. On 13th May 2007 Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> wrote >Yes, you would have to do this when transitioning from a root disk on >non RAID device to a RAID device. The instructions on the wiki were >written for installing Debian, but they should probably be extended to >the case of transitioning root devices, because the instructions are >pretty similar. Yes you're correct I was attempting to transition to a RAID 1 root device. >I'm not following. You say that your RAID device is mounted as root >(which sounds like what you want). In what way is your old root device >still in use? You can't have two devices mounted as root. What I was referring to here was that when I ran mount with no parameters it showed that /dev/md5 was mounted as /. However some quick tests showed that actually the root filesystem was /dev/sda1. I don't know how to explain this but this is what it did... I then realised that the configuration for the root device must be in flash somewhere, so I thought I'd try flash-kernel to update the kernel and initramfs. (BTW how does it know what to mount as the root file system? I assumed that doing update-initramfs read the /etc/fstab and stored it somewhere??). Anyway the result was that the device then failed to boot and so I reflashed a virgin etch flash image :- (http://cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/files/sda1-2.6.18.dfsg.1-12.bin) That's where I'm currently at... I haven't checked yet but would the flash-kernel overwrite the change to the root delay in the apex environment? Regards Stephen Fry
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