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Re: Raid, fsck, superblock could not be found



hi ya

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, rds wrote:

some details in the posts.. but all the important data is NOT in the post
 
> Loading modules...
>   ide_cd
>   ide_detect
> FATAL: Module ide_detect not found.

dont care about these if you're usind /dev/sdxxx

> If I continue with CONTROL-D, the system will boot but /boot is not mounted and
> /dev/md1 is not started and needs to be assembled.

tah dah .. :-)

my dumb question  is:
	what is /dev/md1 ??  is it raid1 or raid5

	if it raid5, i think you're screwed if you are booting off
	/dev/md0 instead of a boot floppy or boot cd or
	boot-any-other-media

	if /dev/md1 is raid1, than how are you booting??
	with grub or lilo or ???

	what's the content of grub.conf or lilo.conf

	in either case, you should have:
		boot=/dev/md2
		root=/dev/md2
 
	- what is the partition type.. ( fdisk -l /dev/hda   or /dev/sda )
		it should be "FD"  

> # cat /etc/fstab
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/md1        /boot           ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       2

md1  is raid1 or raid5 ??

> /dev/md2        /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/md3        none            swap    sw              0       0

 
> # cat /proc/mdstat 
> Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] 
> md2 : active raid5 sda2[0] sdc2[2] sdb2[1]
>       486351616 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

good
       
> md3 : active raid5 sda3[0] sdc3[2] sdb3[1]
>       1959680 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU]

good
       
> # mdadm --assemble /dev/md1 /dev/sd[abc]1
> mdadm: /dev/md1 has been started with 3 drives.

good
 
> # fsck.ext3 /dev/md1
> e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> /dev/md1: clean, 27/10040 files, 17051/40064 blocks

good

> So, it appears that fsck fails because /dev/md1 is not started when fsck runs
> against it. But /dev/md2 does not appears to have any problems with fsck on
> reboot.

raid5 usually cannot be used to boot ( /boot )

c ya
alvin



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