automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 9 23:46:55 UTC 2013


On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
> I am attempting to make my raid array[1] automounting
> but I get the initramfs prompt when I have the drives plugged-in
>
> this what I see on screen when I boot/reboot the system
> 1. the bios screen
> 2. the grubs screen
> 3. the ubunut splash screen
> 4. the initramfs prompt
>
> if I unplug the drives and reboot I get "press s to skip mounting" message
> I press s and plug-in the drives
> I am able to mount the array in ubuntu
>
> /dev/fstab trimmed
> "
> /dev/md0p1 /media/disk defaults 0 1
> "
>
> I've searched google and have not found any thing the look remotely the same
>
> PS: I am using ubuntu 12.04 LTS
>
> [1] two 2tb usb hard drives RAID level 1, multimedia data and related
> databases

Why would you pause at the initramfs prompt since this array isn't
your root device?

Is md0p1 listed in "mdadm.conf"?

Did you rebuild the initramfs after creating the array and adding it
to "mdadm.conf"?




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