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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:37:37 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0507121635280.32689@ida.bway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D3DDDE.7020805@gmx.net>

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?


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-12 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-12  7:28 [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting Jarry
2005-07-12 14:56 ` Kurt Guenther
2005-07-12 15:12   ` Jarry
2005-07-12 20:37     ` A. Khattri [this message]
2005-07-12 21:02       ` Richard Fish
2005-07-13  4:18       ` Jarry
2005-07-13  5:24         ` Richard Fish
2005-07-13 14:09           ` Jarry
2005-07-13 14:18             ` Mike Williams
2005-07-13 18:26               ` Richard Fish
2005-07-13 16:17             ` [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting - SOLVED ! Jarry
2005-07-13 18:45               ` Richard Fish
2005-07-14  6:37                 ` Jarry
2005-07-13 18:40             ` [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting Richard Fish

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