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List:       linux-raid
Subject:    Re: Unable to read superblock
From:       Micah Anderson <micah () riseup ! net>
Date:       2002-07-23 21:01:37
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On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Ross Vandegrift wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:45:03PM -0700, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > > I had lilo set for:
> > > 
> > > boot=/dev/md0
> > > root=/dev/md5
> > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20RAID
> > >         label=RAID
> > >         read-only
> > >         alias=4
> 
> Are you using the raid-extra-boot option?  If you aren't you probably
> want to be - it'll allow the system to boot if one of the boot drives is
> dead.

Actually, I switched to grub, I wasn't aware of the raid-extra-boot
option, wonder if there is something similar in grub.


> This may sound dumb, but are you sure you didn't compile RAID1 as a
> module?  If you did, you'll need to use an initrd to load the module
> before you mount root.  Otherwise, you'll need to rebuild the kernel
> with the driver included in the kernel.

Yes, I did *not* build them as modules. Modules are too much of a
pain. :)

Micah

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