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Reassembling Raid 10 in Ubuntu from the initramfs menu
My raid 10 - used for / - has failed for my Ubuntu box.
I replaced the bad disk and I am trying to reassemble the raid from the initramfs menu. I have tried starting the degraded Raid and using the ...
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auto assembling mdadm created RAID - initramfs doesn't change
(Ubuntu 10.10 + mdadm 3.1.4) I have my raid described in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf:
HOMEHOST <system>
ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=46e68921:eea24d1d:e933eee8:192d55bc
ARRAY /dev/md/Volume0 ...
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What tells initramfs or the Ubuntu Server boot process how to assemble RAID arrays?
The simple question: how does initramfs know how to assemble mdadm RAID arrays at startup?
My problem: I boot my server and get:
Gave up waiting for root device.
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/[UUID] does ...
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software RAID array not starting in initramfs on Debian
One of my Debian servers (kernel 2.6.30-AMD64) refuses to start the software RAID array that houses the root partition in initramfs. It dumps me with a busybox console. When I follow the necessary ...
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Can't limit mdadm's detection
I've got a problem with mdadm and generating initrd.
I had some problems with one disk, so suddenly mdadm started detecting my raid1 arrays to be on hda, hdb2, hdb3 - even though they should really ...
