Re: Upgrade to Etch on RAID system fails to boot

[Brendan Simon <Brendan@BrendanSimon.com>]

Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:43:15AM +1000, Brendan Simon wrote:
>   
> > I upgraded a backup server from Sarge (2.6.8) to Etch (2.6.18) and it 
> > now fails to boot.
> >
> >     
> Have you checked that "AUTOSTART=true" is set in /etc/default/mdadm?
> Did you read and follow the instructions in
> /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.upgrading-2.5.3.gz?
>   

mdadm is not installed.
My adaptec raid card provides hardware raid, so I don't think I need 
mdadm.  I certainly did not need it when I was running Sarge/2.6.8, so I 
presume that shouldn't need it for Etch/2.6.18.

Brendan.