Re: debian testing and mdadm [SOLVED]

[Adam Olsen <adamo@mindzion.com>]

Alvin Oga suggested I try using grub, which has in fact worked.

Thanks !

Adam Olsen wrote:
> Yes, both partitions are set as fd
>
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>
> > Adam Olsen wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I just recently attempted to use this method:
> > > http://synic.ath.cx/raid1.txt to create full software raid 1 on our
> > > server running debian testing.  I replaced all the references to
> > > raidtools with mdadm.
> >
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > > How can I get /dev/sda2 to come up automatically?
> >
> > Did you remember to set your partition type to 0xfd?  Without that
> > (and I am assuming that you have / on RAID) the kernel will not
> > automatically compose your RAID device for you during boot.  The
> > 0xfd type can be changed within cfdisk (remember to reboot immediately
> > after writing the new partition table) and represents the "Linux
> > Auto-detect RAID partition type."
> >
> > -Roberto
> >
> > --
> > Roberto C. Sanchez
> > http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr