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uncrfe
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 Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject: Boot after install problems (2005.0, 2004.3) |
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Hello,
I'm on my 5th attempt (or so) at installing either 2004.3 or 2005.0. The machine is a Dell Poweredge SC1420. It's important piece of hardware is a intel ICH5 (software raid) setup. I've got the RAID disabled in the bios, as it's not supported under linux. I followed this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID a week or so ago, and it worked perfectly, went off without a hitch. I then screwed up that install (by messing with qmailrocks), so decided a rebuild clean was in order. I've since tried rebuilding about 5 times, with the same result each time. My raidtab is:
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#/boot in raid1
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 32
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb1
raid-disk 1
#/ in raid1
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 32
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/sda3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb3
raid-disk 1
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Important parts of fstab are:
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/dev/md0 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/md1 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
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I have the machine setup with the first partition on each drive (drives are identical seagates) being a 100mb ext2 part, followed by a 1000mb swap part, followed by the root part filling the rest of the drive. The drives are partitioned identically. Upon reboot I get something to the tune of: 'mounting sysfs at /sys', followed by a failure 'can't create lock file /etc/mtab~1052: read-only file system (use -n flag to override). Skip down another few lines, past the successful mounting of the swap partitions: 'remounting root filesystem read-only' [ok], then 'check root filesystem' and 'failed to open device /dev/md0, no such file or directory'.
Before the boot process, the reiserfs module shows md1 being mounted with no problem. I'm stumped at this point. I have raid1, sata stuff, md, dm, and all the stuff that's recommended enabled in the kernel, but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas? |
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uncrfe
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nutznboltz
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| Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not sure if it's the Right Thing but my system boots multi-user if I put all the md devices into grub.conf vis
| Code: | | kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/md2 md=0,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 md=1,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2 md=2,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 |
otherwise I don't see all the /dev entries for md devices even with my /etc/mdadm.conf file populated this way
| Code: | DEVICE /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3
DEVICE /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdb3
ARRAY /dev/md0 devices=/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1
ARRAY /dev/md1 devices=/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2
ARRAY /dev/md2 devices=/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3 |
and the lack of all the md /dev entries makes the boot sequence fail into single-user mode. |
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