Re: Raid, fsck, superblock could not be found

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

hi ya

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, rds wrote:

>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1           5       40131   fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda2               6       30279   243175905   fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda3           30280       30401      979965   fd  Linux raid autodetect

good

> # cat /boot/grub/device.map 
> (hd0)   /dev/sda
> (hd1)   /dev/sdb
> (hd2)   /dev/sdc

i'm not sure about that .. but lets assume its right
 
> ## default grub root device
> ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
> # groot=(hd0,0)

whacky ...  root should be "/dev/md0"  not the default of an individual
sata disk 

> title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-686-sata-raid 
> root            (hd0,0)
> kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=/dev/md2 ro 
> initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.8-2-686-sata-raid

does initrd.img support raid ??
	- if it does, does it have enough tools/config to assemble
	the raid array 
		- eg mdadm, config files, raidtools, ..

	- i'm guess not, since it doesnt boot by itself, but does
	work when you manually mdadam'it

c ya
alvin