Christian Mueller <christian.mueller1 <at> gmx.de> writes: > > Hi Steve! > > How do you boot this beast (Bootloader)? > On what partition/md is actually /boot? > > On 03.04.2005 12:03, Steve Kwee wrote: > > .. > > mdadm -E results in an error message complaining about a missing > > superblock (see 4.) > > .. > > ----------------------------- > > 4. mdadm -E /dev/md1 > > ----------------------------- > > mdadm: No super block found on /dev/md1 (Expected magic a92b4efc, got > > f1800828) > 'man mdadm' shows the following > > -E, --examine > Print content of md superblock on device(s). > ^^^^^^^^^ > So, this works not against an md array. > > Cheers, Chris >
There is another raid device /dev/md0 on the same set of disks which has the kernel on it. The kernel is booted with grub /dev/md0 works as expected /dev/md1 does not. I have attached fstab and menu.lst (1., 2.) I followed the description found at http://nickdafish.com/public/HowToRaid to set things up. ------------------------------------------------------ 1. /etc/fstab ----------------------------------------------- # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/md0 /boot reiserfs defaults 0 2 /dev/md1 / reiserfs defaults 0 2 ------------------------------------------------------ 2. less /boot/grub/menu.lst ------------------------------------------------------ timeout 8 # By default, boot the first entry. default 0 # Fallback to the second entry. fallback 1 # raid ########################################## title Ubuntu Linux (Kernel hd0, Root /dev/md1) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/md1 ro splash initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386 savedefault boot title Ubuntu Linux (Kernel hd1, Root /dev/md1) kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/md1 ro splash initrd (hd1,0)/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386 savedefault boot # single user ########################################## title Ubuntu Linux single (Kernel hd0, Root /dev/md1) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/md1 ro single initrd (hd0,0)/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386 savedefault boot title Ubuntu Linux single (Kernel hd1, Root /dev/md1) kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 root=/dev/md1 ro single initrd (hd1,0)/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386 savedefault boot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
