Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-10 Thread Nick Pappin
t 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

RE: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-09 Thread Dave
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 wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-09 Thread Nick Pappin
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 di

RE: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-09 Thread Dave
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 thi

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-08 Thread Nick Pappin
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 ha

Re: [gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
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. signature.asc Descrip

[gentoo-user] software raid, mdadm is not finding disks

2009-07-08 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm a new user trying out Gentoo though not a new Linux user. I wanted to try software raid1. I've got only one machine so this had to go in to a virtual machine, i installed from the 2008 minimal iso image, the install went fine, while chrooted /dev/md* devices were working fine, fd