yes. I will cut and paste.
turns out another thing someone did was manually do a
mv /etc/rc5.d/S40smartd /etc/rc5.d/K40smartd
I don't know what effect this may have had?
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:19:55 -0800
From: Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Raid 1
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-ID: <1197299995.25236.3.camel@home-desk>
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On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 12:45 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> We put Raid 1 (software) on an IBM server. I installed some software
> and made sure everything
> worked. Then we realized we needed to set up grub so the machine
> would boot from either disk.
> So under Linux Rescue we went into grub and did
>
> device (hd0) /dev/sda
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> device (hd1) /dev/sdb
> root (hd1,0)
> setup (hd1)
>
> But then when we booted, everything failed. I noticed a commone
> message "initlog not found" so I looked on another machine and
> foiund it under /sbin but not on this one. So I copied it to /sbin
> and
> rebooted. It got a lot farther this time, but then got stuck on not
> being
> able to find a default theme.
>
> I also noticed that linux rescue puts the linux under /mnt/sysimage
> (so /etc is /mnt/sysimage/etc, /home is /mnt/sysimage/home, etc)
> but in addition to those there was still a /etc, /home, etc. I
> suppose
> one was the mirrored disk.
>
> So it sounds like we might not have done something correctly. Anyone
> have any idea? We did set up the whole raid system correctly during
> Linux installation on a different machine, and then used that
> anaconda-ks.cfg
> file for this one (removing the "#"'s where the raid stuff was
> commented out
> in the config file).
Can you post the output of "mdadm --detail /dev/mdX" for each raid
device on your machine? It almost sounds like the RAID isn't working
for you.
Sean
