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On 11/25/2010 07:30 AM, Kevin Bailey wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Greg Oliver
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You are pointing mkinitrd to the mdadm.conf so it gets included?<br>
Beyond that I do not know - especially if rescur mode can see it. Did<br>
you chroot into your install before you rebooted and install the md<br>
stuff into your initrd?<br>
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<div>The initrd has a good mdadm.conf. Its /etc/passwd, /etc/group</div>
<div>and possibly something related to udev that's missing. All I did</div>
<div>was search and replace /etc/apt/sources.list with lucid and</div>
<div>let it update.</div>
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So I was wondering, if Lucid didn't update the kernel, shouldn't<br>
the initramfs still work ? (There might be some incompatibility<br>
but it should boot.) Sure enough, the Lucid update *had* touched<br>
the initrd. Fortunately, it left a back-up copy. I swapped the two<br>
and booted. It whined and mounted /dev/md0 read-only, but that's<br>
easy to fix.<br>
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I wasn't sure what to do at this point, so I tried a hail, Mary: Just<br>
install the latest kernel and pray. This worked perfectly. Not sure<br>
why the previous update didn't. Maybe it didn't do a update-grub ?
<shrug><br>
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I think the "degraded array" and fsck problems were red herrings.<br>
They needed to be fixed, for sure, but they weren't preventing the
mount.<br>
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Thanks to all who responded. I think its awesome that this list<br>
has maintained its helpfulness through the years. Go myth!<br>
And have some pumpkin pie on me. :)<br>
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