Re: Software RAID 1 reiserfs fails to boot because of fsck

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Jimmy Liang wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I must be missing something here, but I just set up a software RAID 1 on 
> Sarge, using raidtools2. I was able to use /etc/init.d/raid2 script to 
> start and stop the raid, and am able to mount the /dev/md0 drive.
> The problem comes when i put the mount into fstab. If I use
> "/dev/md0        /backup         reiserfs        defaults        0       2"
> The boot would fail, and it complains that the partition needs to be 
> fscked manually.
> I'm thinking that the raid hasn't started, so thats why there's nothing 
> to fsck, because if I use
> "/dev/md0        /backup         reiserfs        defaults        0       0"
> in fstab, it boots up fine.
> 
> Can anyone give me some hints as to how to get fsck working on this 
> software raid 1?

what is the contents of:
	/etc/lilo.conf
	/boot/grub/menu.lst

what is the partition type of the disks assigned to from /dev/md0
	fdisk -l /dev/hda
	fdisk -l /dev/hdc

c ya
alvin