<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I had a similar problem, here are the things I did wrong:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>a) I didn't create a partition on the drives of the correct "Autodetect RAID type", was setting up the RAID on the raw disks instead</DIV><DIV>b) I didn't create the /etc/mdadm.conf</DIV><DIV>c) I didn't have the mdadm stuff in my init scripts....</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My suggestions, setup the raid, check out the contents of /proc/mdstat after everything is all synched up, reboot... If the raid volume is there, you should be golden to proceed with LVM. Otherwise, try starting it manually with mdadm... If that doesn't work, post the output of your /proc/mdstat to the list and any applicable dmesg stuff...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:11 AM, Jon Larson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV><SPAN class="829420415-28072006"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I'm using mdadm to create a raid1 array on knoppmyth R5C7. I thought that I had overcome all the problems since the raid array seemed to work fine--I even configured LVM on top of it. But when I rebooted the whole thing just disappeared, as if mdadm forgot that it ever existed. Please note, I'm not trying to boot of the raid array (not yet), just get it up and running so that I can transfer my knoppmyth distrobution over to it... Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mythtv-users mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>