Re: RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing

2007-11-23 Thread Rich
On Nov 23, 5:10 am, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.11.22.1345 +]: > > > I have two RAID1 devices -- /dev/md0 which is /boot (and > > does NOT use LVM) and is made up of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, > > and /dev/md1 which has LVM (and the rest

Re: RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing

2007-11-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.11.22.1345 +]: > I have two RAID1 devices -- /dev/md0 which is /boot (and > does NOT use LVM) and is made up of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, > and /dev/md1 which has LVM (and the rest of the system) over it > and is made up of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3. Ple

Re: RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing

2007-11-22 Thread Rich
One other thing that might be relevant... On my machine, when there is only one drive installed, it is seen by the bios, grub, *and the kernel* as /dev/sda no matter which SATA port/controller it is plugged into. So /dev/sda stays /dev/sda when the 2nd drive is removed, and /dev/sdb becomes /dev/

RAID1 arrays not starting when drive is missing

2007-11-22 Thread Rich
I have installed LVM-over-RAID1 on a debian-derived system. Kernel = 2.6.22 mdadm = 2.6.2 lvm2 = 2.02.26 I have two RAID1 devices -- /dev/md0 which is /boot (and does NOT use LVM) and is made up of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2, and /dev/md1 which has LVM (and the rest of the system) over it and is made