On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:15 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote: > > Thanks for trying to help. I'm not sure I understand. I never got RAID > to work under FC4. (My familiarity with all the tools and steps > involved was slim-to-nonexistant, and I simply did not have the time to > experiment with various explanations I saw on the 'net about how to get > FC4 to boot from an nVidia-based RAID array.) My system has only one > installation on it; it is FC5. The kernel that works is the one that > shipped with FC5. I installed it with no problems, and it boots just > fine. The new kernel (2.6.16-1.2080_FC5) fails to boot because it can't > recognize the raid 0 array that was created as part of the original FC5 > install. Are you saying that the kernel that shipped with FC5 is broken > (has the raid fault) and the new one, which cannot read my RAID 0 array, > is okay? > > In any case, here is what my /etc/fstab file says. (Note that I have > adjusted the white spaces to help with readability.) > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 /shared ext3 defaults 1 2 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > I am no expert in file system surgery. Are you suggesting that I need > to change LABEL=/boot to something else? (Yeah, I know enough to > understand what your reference to sda2 is about, but no, I am not > experienced or comfortable enough to be able to say off the top of my > head if that is the right device or if it should be sda1 instead. ) > > FWIW, like you, I have SATA drives in that RAID array. Sorry I forgot > to mention that. > > Thanks very much for your assistance, > > Debbie > > P.S. This system is mostly used as a file server. The /home is just > what you would expect it to be; the /shared partition is primarily for > back ups and file sharing among the Windows machines on my network. OK our problems are a bit different (but probably attributed to the same kernel issue). Is this software Raid0? Can you post the results of fdisk -l
