More RAID-1 problems

[Jeffrey Ross]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> jeff at bubble.org wrote:
>>> I've again run into a problem with RAID-1 on my system.  I can mount 
>>> all
>>> the raid volumes using the linux rescue boot option from the install 
>>> CD.
>>
> [...]
>> it appears as the mdadm is not starting properly or assembling the array
>> properly.  Can anybody confirm if the init file appears correct?  I
>> tried modifying the mdadm line to remove the /dev/md3 (and 6) and it
>> tried to assemble all the volumes but said that /dev/mdX (listed all
>> my array volums) didn't exist with "mdadm: no devices found for 
>> /dev/md..."
>
> This is probably too obvious to mention, but are the underlying 
> partition types set to FD (raid autodetect).  I don't see why they'd 
> work from the rescue boot if they aren't though unless you are 
> assembling them by hand.
>
I wish that was the problem but alas, I checked, all the partitions are 
set to 0xfd, and the rescue disk is automatically assembling them.

Jeff