From ilug-admin@linux.ie Thu Aug 22 16:27:21 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: zzzz@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A28A43F99 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:27:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for zzzz@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:27:21 +0100 (IST) Received: from lugh.tuatha.org (root@lugh.tuatha.org [194.125.145.45]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7MFQmZ12280 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:26:48 +0100 Received: from lugh (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07188; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:25:32 +0100 Received: from moe.jinny.ie ([193.120.171.3]) by lugh.tuatha.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA07145 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:25:24 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: lugh.tuatha.org: Host [193.120.171.3] claimed to be moe.jinny.ie Received: from jlooney.jinny.ie (unknown [193.120.171.2]) by moe.jinny.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938BD7FC46; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:25:23 +0100 (IST) Received: by jlooney.jinny.ie (Postfix, from userid 500) id 4F57189D; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:25:45 +0100 (IST) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:25:45 +0100 From: "John P. Looney" To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: ilug@linux.ie Message-Id: <20020822152545.GJ3670@jinny.ie> Reply-To: valen@tuatha.org Mail-Followup-To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, ilug@linux.ie References: <200208172056.g7HKuHm05754@raq.iceblink.org> <1029624922.14769.119.camel@atherton> <20020819140815.GY26818@jinny.ie> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020819140815.GY26818@jinny.ie> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Os: Red Hat Linux 7.3/Linux 2.4.18-3 X-Url: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~valen X-Gnupg-Publickey: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~valen/public.asc Subject: [ILUG] Re: Problems with RAID1 on cobalt raq3 Sender: ilug-admin@linux.ie Errors-To: ilug-admin@linux.ie X-Mailman-Version: 1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Id: Irish Linux Users' Group X-Beenthere: ilug@linux.ie On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 03:08:16PM +0100, John P. Looney mentioned: > This is likely because to get it to boot, like the cobalt, I'm actually > passing root=/dev/hda5 to the kernel, not /dev/md0. Just to solve this...the reason I was booting the box with root=/dev/hda5, not /dev/md0 was because /dev/md0 wasn't booting - it would barf with 'can't find init'. It turns out that this is because I was populating md0 with tar. Which seems to have 'issues' with crosslinked files - for instance, it was trying to make a hard link of glibc.so to hda - and failing. It was only as I did it again with a friend present, that he spotted the errors, and queried them. We noticed that the hard linked files just didn't exist on the new rootfs. When we duplicated the filesystems with dump instead of tar, it worked fine, I was able to tell lilo to use root=/dev/md0 and everything worked. Woohoo. Kate -- Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug@linux.ie http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information. List maintainer: listmaster@linux.ie