Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >> .... snip .... >> >>> For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and >>> quiet, <snip> >>> edit the kernel line in grub, and add rdshell at the end, so you boot >>> into grub's rudimentary shell if/when it fails, and you can look around and >>> find what it's seeing. >> >> Will try your suggestion and report back. <nsip> > Reboot the system with disk1 removed, the kernel boots, the 'md' > driver tries to bind sda. At this point the systems seems to hang > for a few seconds and then 'dracut' reports that it cannot find > /dev/md_dop1 (the root partition) > > dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/md_d0p1" found > > Console image pasted here <http://imagebin.org/217229> At this point, I'm starting to wonder if the initrd.img has the drivers for software RAID. You *might* need to rebuild that. > > In the "rdshell" environment I can see that /etc/mdadm.conf is defined > but beyond this I don't know what to look for. > > Changing the Partition Id for the RAID1 partitions to 'fd' does not help. > > Any further suggestions and/or comments? What devices are there in /dev/? /dev/sd? /dev/md? mark