Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932354AbWA3QLR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:11:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932355AbWA3QLR (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:11:17 -0500 Received: from tassadar.physics.auth.gr ([155.207.123.25]:44003 "EHLO tassadar.physics.auth.gr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932354AbWA3QLQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:11:16 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:11:03 +0200 (EET) From: Dimitris Zilaskos To: Neil Brown cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RAID autodetection not working when booting with initramfs In-Reply-To: <17373.20667.838469.977966@cse.unsw.edu.au> Message-ID: References: <17373.20667.838469.977966@cse.unsw.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1418 Lines: 37 > /* > * check if there is an early userspace init. If yes, let it do all > * the work > */ > > So yes, it is by design. Assembling arrays with mdadm gives you a > lot more control than the kernel-autodetect so as you have an > initramfs, it is a good idea to make use of it. > > If you *really* want to use the autodetect functionality, you can look > around for a program called 'raidautorun'. It does triggers the > autodetect function from userspace. > Thank you , raidautorun did the trick. I am trying to build an initramfs as much generic as possible to be used with hundreds of systems, so doing a custom image for every possible raid combination is really not an options compared to autodetection. Thnx again, -- ============================================================================ Dimitris Zilaskos Department of Physics @ Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece PGP key : http://tassadar.physics.auth.gr/~dzila/pgp_public_key.asc http://egnatia.ee.auth.gr/~dzila/pgp_public_key.asc MD5sum : de2bd8f73d545f0e4caf3096894ad83f pgp_public_key.asc ============================================================================ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/