--- Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic@pbl.ca wrote:

Lee Parmeter wrote:

...

I did not mark the parition type to FD so apparently

the

...

kernel or mdadm just executes and looks in the

ndadm.conf

...

file.

When trying to start the raid manually, I found that

the

...

raid would fail unless I passed the partion assignments

on

...

the commandline to mdadm. However, when the DEVICE and ARRAY are defined in the mdadm.conf, the partion info

was

...

not required, just the device name, "/dev/md0". So, I

think

...

the raid failed to start at boot due to not enough information being available for it to startup, thus the mdadm.conf file being required.

Anyway, that's what my experince told me!

OK, but have you attempted to mark the partition as type fd (linux raid autodetect)?

No. Since /dev/md0 is loading OK in fstab, I have not messed with it further.

My guess is, if you did, the kernel would

bring it up as soon as raid* device drivers are loaded. The information in superblocks at the end of each partition should be more than enough.

I will be creating another raid1 in the next week or two and will try you suggestion then.

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