Not a problem -- W. Nick Pappin
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Dave <dave.meh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I had the LSI driver loading as a module. I recompiled the kernel > and made it monolithic, put in the raid and other drivers in that way and > rebooted. It is working! > That also explains another unrelated issue. > Thanks a lot. > Dave. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Pappin [mailto:npap...@latahfcu.org] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:58 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks > > Do you have the lsi fusion kernel driver installed? > > -- > W. Nick Pappin > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Dave <dave.meh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > Thanks for your reply. I did change the type of the > partitions on > both disks to fd linux raid autodetect. When i rebooted in to the > live CD i > gave it the mdadm -A /dev/md3 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 it found both > drives and > brought them up. I was then able to mount the array. > In my kernel config file i do have CONFIG_MD_RAID1 set to Y. > I've just tried compiling a genkernel and got the same error when i > tried to > load it. Any suggestions welcome. > Thanks. > Dave. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Pappin [mailto:npap...@latahfcu.org] > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 5:12 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks > > A couple of things when you reboot into the live cd you need to tell > mdadm > to assemble the drive /dev/md3 with the command mdadm -A /dev/md3 > /dev/sda3 > /dev/sdb3. As for the booting problem i think it may be that you are > missing > a driver did you put the md raid 1 driver into the kernel. Last Neil > has a > point when you ran fdisk did you change the partition type to auto > detect > raid. > > -- > W. Nick Pappin > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:07:04 -0400, Dave wrote: > > > Upon reboot i'm seeing mdadm > > trying to detect the two disks, and not succeeding, > > > Did you set the partition type to Linux RAID Autodetect (FD)? > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. > > > > > > > > > > >
