Bug#526525: a problem with mptbase or bnx2 (was: Bug#526525: Kernel linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 does not see) root RAID device /dev/md0
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> Sorry. We got off on a bad start. I'll review your stuff tomorrow
> and then let's start afresh.
OK
> By the time you get dumped into the busybox prompt during initramfs
> time, are /dev/sd[abcd] present?
They are *not*. That would seem to be the nub of the problem. No
base partitions, thus no RAID. Good, thanks, that's progress. Might
be good for md to report that that a little better (see screenshot).
Oh, duh, I moved /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf out of the way. So it doesn't
even know I have a RAID until it autodetects it, right? Oh, wait, in
this initramfs environment there is an /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf, and it
shows UUID and the 4-way RAID1. What, so the /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
inside the initrd is not from the kernel package but was built
locally? Didn't realize that.
Perhaps if I could figure out how to grab the dmesg output from
initramfs environment, I could then compare the amd64 kernel output to
the 686-bigmem kernel output... :-/
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