Re: Squeeze assembles one RAID array, at boot but not the other
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
>
> I have two RAID arrays on my Debian squeeze system. The old one, which
> still works, and has worked for years, is on a pair of partitions on two
> 750GB disks. THe new one is not recognized at boot.
>
> boot is *not* on any of these RAIDs; my system boots properly.
>
> The new one, whih I build today, resides on similar (but larger)
> partitions on two 3TB disks. I partitioned these drives today, using
> gparted for gpt partitioning, then created a RAID1 from two 2.3GB
> partitions o these disks, set up LVM2 on the RAID drive, created an LVM
> partition, put an ext4 file system on it and filled it with lots of
> data. The partition definitely exists.
>
> But it is not recognized at boot. The dmesg output tells me all about
> finding the old RAID, but it doesn't even notice the new one, not even to
> complain about it.
>
> It seems the significant differences bwtween the two RAIDS are:
>
> One is new, and the other os old.
> One is on a GPT-partitioned disk and the other uses the MBR partion table.
> One is huge and the other is just large.
>
> Any ideas where to look? Or how to work around the problem?
Is the new array listed in mdadm.conf?
Did you rebuild your initramfs?
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