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[Arun Khan <knura9@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Manfred Hollstein
<manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010, 17:50:59 +0100, Arun Khan wrote:
> > OS: opensuse 11.2 x86_64 with stock kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop
> > Motherboard: DG45ID
> > CPU: Intel C2Q 8400
> >
> > HDD1(sda): WD 320GB sataII
> > HDD2 (sdb): Seagate 160GB  sata II
> >
> > (a) Using the mdadm tool created /dev/md0 (raid1 /dev/sda5 and
> > /dev/sdb1 both 160GB) - OK
> > (b) Create ext4 filesystem on /dev/md0  - OK
> > (c) Mounted /dev/md0 on /mnt/md0 - OK
> > (d) Added to /etc/fstab:
> >       /dev/md0    /mnt/md0     ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 2
> > (e) Created an updated "initrd" file to include the "md" drivers
> >       mkinitrd -f "md lvm2"  - OK
> > (e) mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf  - OK
>
> You should have run (e) _before_ running (e) ;-) To be serious,
> /etc/mdadm.conf might be stored in the generated initrd, so before
> running mkinitrd, it's always reasonable to have /etc/mdadm.conf as
> current as possible.

The second (e) should have been (f) :).

Yes, I did generate a fresh initrd after creating the /etc/mdadm.conf.
 It did not make any difference and also it was not copied over in the
initrd.

The real issue was that the boot.md service was OFF as Anders suspected.

Thanks for your help.

-- Arun Khan
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