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 1DsRb2-00042t-GM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:43:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6CKfSOI013517; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:41:28 GMT Received: from mail.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6CKbtVP023570 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 20:37:56 GMT Received: (qmail 64306 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jul 2005 20:38:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ida.bway.net) (216.220.96.4) by smtp.bway.net with (EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 12 Jul 2005 20:38:48 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:37:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Khattri" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with raid1: error while booting In-Reply-To: <42D3DDDE.7020805@gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <42D3710F.7020305@gmx.net> <42D3DA38.206@serent.com> <42D3DDDE.7020805@gmx.net> 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 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 006aa54f-7bac-4f52-8629-0f21b399bfad X-Archives-Hash: a18c399ecabe37b3ee92635e4949cb39 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? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list