also sprach Erik Bataller <erik@uhg.com> [2007.06.14.1156 +0100]: > I'm having boot problems with my ubuntu box and I believe it is > because of both the "race" condition associated with booting an md > ( ubuntu bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/ > 75681 ) and (perhaps or) that my mdadm.conf and mkconf are > inconsistent, i.e. different and mkconf reports two md0 partitions. Please go and read the FAQ and README.recipes: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mdadm/mdadm/trunk/debian/README.recipes?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 the last item, #12, explains what you have to do with the array that should be md1. > * It seems that every other time I boot my system won't boot and > a) takes a long time to boot > > b) ends up at the initramfs prompt It cannot find the root filesystem. > 1) How do I resolve the inconsistencies between mdadm.conf and > mkconf output? See above. > 2) Can raid1 have 4 partitions, 3 active and 1 spare? If so, how do > I make the this so? This is a question that's answered directly in the manpage: mdadm -Cl1 -n3 -x1 … -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems in the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain
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