From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3CB1381FA for ; Sun, 4 May 2014 18:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFD62E0AE9; Sun, 4 May 2014 18:49:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.164]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776C5E0AB8 for ; Sun, 4 May 2014 18:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.137] (helo=smtp6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq1.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh1TA-0006Jr-Vp for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 20:49:00 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp6.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wh1T5-0000hf-UY for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 May 2014 20:49:00 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.150]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1B7D94C for ; Sun, 4 May 2014 20:48:23 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 20:48:05 +0200 Message-ID: <55971122.pd6K1E9Tn9@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.10.25-gentoo; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140504131551.33ea2ae7@digimed.co.uk> References: <5364C0F9.3000906@xunil.at> <2834223.fuPElFHo4d@andromeda> <20140504131551.33ea2ae7@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 15be0479-e3ab-475d-8e6e-8a9dad5b18a8 X-Archives-Hash: b83d6f0341af72fc203f3bc5c50e4a77 On Sunday, May 04, 2014 01:15:51 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 03 May 2014 20:40:47 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > * SystemRescueCD and the Gentoo minimal installation CD both start > > > any raid arrays they find and apply their own names to them. It is > > > then impossible, or so I thought, to resume an interrupted > > > installation process. Of course, all I had to do was "mdadm > > > --stop /dev/md127" etc. > > > > Yes, I noticed that annoyance myself. I would much prefer it to default > > to more logical names. > > ISTR that's because of the hostname stored in the RAID, so when you plug > the array into another computer, it doesn't clobber any existing array > names. I had this happen when transplanting an array to a new system. > There is a sequence of commands to reset the names but it was a while ago > and all I remember is that the sequence started with "man lvm". Actually, the steps are: 1) invalidate the RAID 2) create a new, broken, RAID using the invalidatd disk 3) copy data to new RAID 4) delete md127 5) add other disk from md127 to md1 Or something to that effect. A "rename" option or even a "I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING_JUST_KEEP_THE_SAME_NAME" option, which would be enabled by default when booting with sysresccd, would be nice. -- Joost