From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759561AbXGDUye (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:54:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755514AbXGDUy1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:54:27 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.183]:33791 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755126AbXGDUy0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 16:54:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=skAT1f81HrjH1pactXL9NH4+BDEsLaRiLPSIfA77YOdbKGiPfiUd0hDmR3G7lIByITcj5In+7EC+ih8+7qKErf5hhyEenEOmmA5PSo4mMseVysy0INIa6MQNXcQWLYpoSWqfpDwtNVj7FU/SBp4YlOyfUgn0GEA12KAHZfLaosc= Message-ID: <3ae72650707041354j566ee2caj33aeb70cf87955c4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:54:25 +0200 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "Ingo Freund" Subject: Re: md device files missing at boot time Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <468BA187.3080703@e-dict.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <468BA187.3080703@e-dict.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 93b8778ea7aba031 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/4/07, Ingo Freund wrote: > one of the systems I'm working with was changed (copied) from single (scsi - sda1) > to multiple disk (raid1) (sdb1,sdc1 --> md0). > When I try to boot from the new created md-device it stops with: > ... > loading reiserfs > "Waiting for device /dev/md0 to appear: ........ not found -- Exiting to /bin/sh > > # ls -la /dev/md* > shows nothing, so I understand why the "/" cannot be mounted, but > where are the /dev/md* files (I found them in "/lib/udev/devices")? > > The kernel is vanilla 2.6.21.5, the (I think) needed hardware and filesystem > drivers are built in modules and put into an initrd file for loading at boot time. > > Does anyone have an idea what I might do wrong? How did you build the initramfs image? /sbin/mkinitrd? Did you add md support to the image? Kay