[WBEL-users] multiple md devices & lvm

[Toby Bluhm]

---- "Kirby C. Bohling" <kbohling at birddog.com> wrote: 
> On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:10:57PM -0500, Toby Bluhm wrote:
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> [snip description of the problem, and evidence I have it working]
> ...
> > > There are three ways to do this:

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> It is important you include xor, if you tell it just RAID5, it will
> include that, but when the add is attempted it'll fail because it
> needs xort added.
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> # mkinitrd --with=raid5 --with=xor /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` 
> # lilo -v

You're right, module xor is key to making it work.  It does work for me now.


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> I haven't read what mkinitrd reads to find your modules.  My guess
> is that it looks at /etc/raidtab (from quickly scanning the man
> page).  You might try see if you have it in your /etc/raidtab.
> 

I've been bypassing raidtab & using mdadm. I was under the (false it seems) impression mkinitrd would scan for loaded modules as part of its routine.

> If you makes you feel any better, I had to deal with all this at
> least three times before I remember that's what the problem is now.
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> 	Thanks,
> 		Kirby
> 


Thanks for the help.