--- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at 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. > -- > Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard > Banknote Limited > Systems Administrator 1499 > Buffalo Place > Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, > MB R3T 1L7 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Lee Parmeter Emperor, linXos - The Flying Penguin http://www.linXos.com Linux Registered User #337161 'It's free. It works. Duh.'" - Eric Harrison The United States is NOT a democracy, it was founded as a Republic! God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a democracy! - Lee Parmeter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com