MD raid device (big) problem

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:34:30PM +0200, Olivier Cortes wrote:

> I re-installed 3 days ago Ubuntu preview on my PC (Asus P4P800S-X, P4 
> 2.8Ghz, 512M, 2x80Gb SATA), with "/" on /dev/md0 (/dev/sda1 & /dev/sdb1 
> RAID1), and swap on /dev/md1 (strangely /dev/evms/.nodes/sdb1 & sdb2 
> RAID1 too).
> 
> I have a question and a problem :
>
> question: why is md1 in evms ? and not simply in /dev ? at boot it fails 
> to start with mdadm-raid, but starts ok with evms and is ok after.

You only mention /dev/md0 and /dev/md1 above.  Are you saying that you also
have /dev/evms/md/0 etc.?

> problem : i dist-upgraded, installed linux-image-2.6.16-5-686 in place 
> of 2.6.10-X-386, and the machine won't boot anymore :
> 
> Starting Ubuntu...
> pivot_root: No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 428: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

This looks like:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5421

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 - mdz