I've been successfully running RAID1 since the Fedora 7 days on this system. This morning I processed the new "updates" on the system (Fedora 9 x86_64), since one of the updates was a new kernel I rebooted the machine (first time in about a month which may be a clue to other software updates!)
At this point the system does not reboot and fails with the RAID partitions. Specifically I get to the point in the bootup "Waiting for driver initialization" and then it follows with
md: md6 stopped. mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md6 md: md3 stopped. mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md3 trying to resume from /dev/md3 Creating root device. Mounting root filesystem. EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
/dev/md6 is root /dev/md1 is /boot /dev/md3 is swap /dev/md2 is /var /dev/md5 is /usr /dev/md7 is /home
The RAID partitions are all partition type 0xfd (raid-autodetect)
If I boot the rescue CD, it will automatically identify my RAID partitions and mount them as /mnt/sysimage.
I have tried removing my /etc/mdadm.conf to allow it to automatically find the devices but no change.
After some searching I found two bugzillas that seem to be appropriate but I am still unable to boot the system. The links are:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447818 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444237
I have tried recreating the section in /etc/rc.sysinit:' #RAID SETUP update_boot_stage RCraid if [ -f /etc/mdadm.conf ]; then /sbin/mdadm -A -s --auto=yes fi
but again no luck. I then tried the new mdadm package that's available in the testing repo but that didn't help either.
My /etc/mdadm.conf file lists the raid volumes by their UUID number, which I have verified is correct, plus it has been working for sometime including previous reloads.
any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Jeff