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Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure



also sprach martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [2007.07.10.0834 +0200]:
> Can I please see your mdadm.conf file and the generated initramfs?
> Please put them somewhere where I can download them instead of
> attaching them to an email. If it turns out to be what I think it
> is, it should be a trivial bug to fix.

Try the following patch agaist
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/mdadm. It ensures that RAID levels
include the word 'raid'. I think your mdadm.conf may say stuff like
level=5, when it should say level=raid5 or not specify level= at
all.

Index: hook
===================================================================
--- hook        (revision 351)
+++ hook        (working copy)
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@
       [ -n "${dev:-}" ] || continue
       echo -n "${dev}:"
       if [ -n "${level:-}" ]; then
-        echo -n "$level"
+        echo -n "raid${level#raid}"
       else
         echo -n "$($MDADM --detail $dev | sed -rne 's,[[:space:]]+Raid Level : ,,p')"
       fi

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