dmraid problems - Intel ICH9R raid not recognized by Fedora 10 Preview

[M A Young]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, kvantanet at seznam.cz wrote:

> B) Using Fedora 9 and Fedora 10 Beta the RAID array is recognized but when
> booting appears an error message which is actually not affecting the
> functionality of the OS (The system boots up OK). Not sure of dmraid (RAID) functionality in case of a crash.
>
> Error:
> <SNIP>
> Setting hostname localhost.localdomain [OK]
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 350: 1336 Segmentation fault /sbin/dmraid.static -ay
> -i -p
> "$dmname" > /dev/null 2>&1
> Setting up Logical Volume Management : 2 logical volumes........
> </SNIP>

The segfault sounds similar to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427550
The problem with the card I had was that the raid appeared with a very 
long name that changes from boot to boot, with the consequence that, as 
well as the segfault, the initrd referred to a a raid id that was no 
longer valid, and the system booted off half of the raid, breaking the 
mirroring.
The segfault was fixed in RHEL/Centos 5, and I worked around the changing 
name by hacking the initrd.img .

 	Michael Young