RAID autodetect?

[Paul Lussier]

Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:

> On Nov 23, 2005, at 22:59, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>
>>  I can later start the RAID just fine
>> with mdadm, but I can't figure out what I'm missing in getting it to
>> autodetect.
>
> Last time I had this happen my initrd image had the wrong version of
> the md driver on it so it wasn't loading properly.  Maybe it was an md
> personality vs. the main driver, not quite sure.
>
> Anyway, if you use initrd, try rebuilding your image.  mkinitrd on
> Redhat-derived systems (not sure about Debian).

I think mkinitrd is a Linux thing, not distribution-specific.  If I'm
wrong, I'm sure Ben will pipe up with a 3-4 page incredibly detailed
explanation of what I'm confusing ;)
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Seeya,
Paul