dmraid & mkinitrd under F10 x86_64
Raymond C. Rodgers
sinful622 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 14:48:26 UTC 2008
Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would
> automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on
> my part; this was obviously a while ago, and I'm no expert on
> mkinitrd. When I installed F10, it wiped out that configuration, and
> is instead intent upon mounting the individual drives and not
> initialize dmraid at all. I've been trying to get this fixed for a few
> days now, but can't seem to come up with an answer. Can any one give
> me an answer?
>
> After unmounting the individual drives, I currently activate the
> dmraid as root with:
>
> dmraid -a yes nvidia_gdedfbbj
>
> Then mount the desired partitions. The device mapper device files for
> the partitions are in my /etc/fstab with an appropriate mounted path,
> which makes it a simple "mount /media/drive" command possible once
> dmraid has been activated.
>
> But mkinitrd seems to be where I'm having the problem. I just tried
> using --force-raid-probe which is listed in the usage notes (mkinitrd
> -h), but apparently it isn't actually available as a command line
> option. Would using "--with=dmraid" work?
>
> Thanks,
> Raymond
I hope this was just lost amid the packagekit threads... Any one got an
answer for me?
Thanks,
Raymond
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