From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsRwc-0003VT-GI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:05:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6CL3Fb2027902; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:03:15 GMT Received: from smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6CKxCgC004154 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:59:13 GMT Received: (qmail 17923 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2005 21:00:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp111.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2005 21:00:06 -0000 Message-ID: <42D43001.90306@asmallpond.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:02:57 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050623) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting References: <42D3710F.7020305@gmx.net> <42D3DA38.206@serent.com> <42D3DDDE.7020805@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c27f959b-9d9a-4ca5-968b-77d4d12f20f5 X-Archives-Hash: ce6251c59e02cc6fa4a743c2f3c8d53e A. Khattri wrote: >On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jarry wrote: > > > >>Pardon for my ignorance, but what do you mean with "Linux raid-1 rather >>than the software raid"??? Is it not the same? Or do you mean some >>hw-raid? >> >> > >Some motherboards claim to have RAID built-in but really it is software >RAID in the BIOS. Linux's software RAID is usually better though. I think >this is what was implied. > > > >>BTW, I'm already on the track of my problem: >>After booting (actually not booting) I entered into that "maintenance >>mode" and found out, that there are no /dev/md? files (although I >>created them during installation)! Why??? Should not udev create them >>automatically? Or did I misconfigured something concerning udev/devfs >>in kernel? >> >> > >Firstly, is RAID support built-in to your kernel? Also did you set the >partition types to "Linux raid autodetect" when running fdisk? > > > > Just an FYI, the md driver does not create sysfs entries and thus udev does not create device nodes if autodetection is not performed by the driver. Autodetection is not performed if either: 1. The md driver is a module (not a problem according to your original email) 2. You are using an initramfs (vs an initrd) to bring up the system 3. or if you do not have the right partition types defined. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list