Re: raid5 initialization errors during boot not after boot. raid5 driver loaded both times.

On Monday 10 January 2005 22:11, Mitchell Laks wrote:

Hi,
I am running debian sarge linux kernel 2.6.8.  I boot from a sata
drive /dev/sda, and set up a raid5 on /dev/hda, /dev/hdc, /dev/hde,
/dev/hdg.

I turned off udev, and created /dev/md0 and I loaded raid5 module into
initrd.img.

(Just a guess): make sure that you have "md" and "raid5" in initrd.

raid5: device hdc1 operational as raid disk 1
raid5: device hda1 operational as raid disk 0
raid5: not enough operational devices for md0 (2/4 failed)

It says there what's wrong: it sees only hda and hdc at that point.

So I have to assume not all needed boot modules (libata, sata-*) are included 
in your initrd.

Maarten

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