<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve MacLaren</b> <<a href="mailto:scram69@gmail.com">scram69@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Drescher</b> <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Sadly, I got the same "/dev/sd* has no superblock" regardless of which drive<br>> I put first in the list. So all 4 drives failed simultaneously?<br>><br>You want to put all 4 drives with the correct partition. Are you sure
<br>it is /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1?<br><br></blockquote></span></div>Oops, I guess the right partition is important...<br><br>This time mdadm --assemble /dev/.static/dev/md0 /dev/sd*1 resulted in something like:<br>"md0 assembled with 4 devices"
<br>However, I don't get long to savor my success, because the machine reboots within about 10 seconds of successfully assembling the raid array. I tried to assemble again after the reboot, and got the same exact results - I don't even get enough time to type a mount command.
<br><br>I guess this explains the continuous reboot loop I wound up in earlier. What is it about just assembling an array that would cause a reboot?<br>
</blockquote></div>Out of desperation, I even booted off the liveCD, used Synaptic to install mdadm in the liveCD environment, and then attempted to assemble the array (sudo mdadm --assemble --scan). Exact same result: "md0 assembled with 4 devices" followed 10 seconds later by a reboot...
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