Re: Reports of successful Squeeze upgrades
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:14, Gordon Farquharson
<gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 00:51, John Winters <john@sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Are there any particular parameters which you'd like set first in order
>> to test them? Is it just the usual
>>
>>
>> Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
>> apt-get update
>> apt-get install linux-image-<mumble>
>> apt-get install udev
>> reboot
>> apt-get upgrade
>> apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Worked for me. The only problem I had was that, because of the new
> optimized init.d scheduling, mdadm doesn't wait for all of my USB RAID
> devices before trying to assemble the array. Setting rootdelay=10 in
> the kernel command line didn't make a difference, so I plan to try a
> longer delay.
It turns out that I was missing ums-cypress.ko in my initramfs. My
RAID devices are in two different USB enclosures (which, admittedly,
is a little strange). The one USB enclosure only requires usb-storage
which was included in the initramfs, but the other seems to require
ums-cypress. As this driver was only being loaded once the root
filesystem was available, the device was coming up too late to be
included by mdadm. Adding ums-cypress to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
includes the driver in the initramfs, so the device come up in time.
What is interesting is that I no longer need the rootdelay parameter
that I needed in lenny anymore.
Gordon
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