[CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:55:47AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 08/31/2010 06:44 AM, fred smith wrote:
> >
> > there are only two drives in this mirrored array, sda and sdb. if I need
> > to re-add them both (which, if I understand mdadm correctly, is what your
> > suggestion above would do) how does it know which one is the correct one
> > to re-sync the array with?
> 
> None of the commands I suggested mentioned sdb, so I'm not sure why 
> you'd get that impression.

Maybe due to lack of caffeine...

> 
> Your kernel logged that it was removing sda2 and sda1 from the array 
> because they are not in sync (non-fresh).  /proc/mdstat indicates that 
> sdb1 and sdb2 are components of arrays, but sda1 and sda2 are not.
> 
> Most importantly, the "mdmonitor" service should have emailed the root 
> user to notify you that your arrays are broken.  You should find out why 
> you aren't getting that email.

actually, root got it, but I'm rather lax about checking root's email.
I've changed /etc/mdadm.conf to send it to user fredex in the future.

thanks for your assistance!

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