thanks for suggestions more later when I have more data
well campers, I have more data.
as I suspected the raid array was not be automatically detected which means that everything else fails miserably. The system is operational with all of the modules (tulip, raid1, md, siimage, dm_mod) are all loaded and the individual components of the raid array are visible. But the other detection does not happen even though they have the right partition type (fd).
so I figured with an entry in /etc/mdadm.conf, checkfs would be able to start things up. my changes to /etc/mdadm.conf were:
DEVICE /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1 ARRAY /dev/md0 UUID=91287317:6bf81ee1:31701212:3b243352
but there's a problem (no surprise I'm sure). The lvm2 code looks for logical volumes first and raid arrays second. Which is the complete opposite of what I need. I seem to remember reading something talking about this but I can't find it.
Closer and closer thanks to commentary from folks here. Any ideas on how to jump the last gap short of of rewriting checkfd?
---eric
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