[solved] Re: automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive

[Tom Sparks]

it is self mounting as long as I wait for the press s to skip message to go away be itself and the raid is not in recover mode :)

 
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----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>
> To: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>; "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2013 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive
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>> ________________________________
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>>  From: JD <jd1008 at gmail.com>
>> To: Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au>; "Ubuntu user 
> technical support, not for general discussions" 
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>> Sent: Sunday, 10 February 2013 12:25 PM
>> Subject: Re: automounting raid array drops to initramfs not boot drive
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>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at yahoo.com.au> 
> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Tom Sparks <tom_a_sparks at 
> yahoo.com.au>wrote: <snip
>>>>   FWIW,
>>>>  Tom, can you please add to that fstab entry  the fstype (such as
>>>>  ext2 or ext3 or ext4 or vfs or whatever it is)  just before 
> defaults
>>>>  and see if that solves the problem?
>>> 
>>> I was quote the other fstab from memory
>>> 
>>> it has ext4, just checked
>>> updated fstab
>>> 
>>> /dev/md0p1 /media/disk/ ext4 defaults 0 1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> no change
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Tom,
>> Please have a look here:
>> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Initramfs
>> 
>> I believe it will answer your dilemma
> I copied my backup copy of mdadm.conf to /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf
> ran sudo update-initramfs -u -vv -k all
> rebooted
> I got dropped back to the initramfs prompt again
> so I typed mdadm /dev/md0
> I got told the raid array was recovering
> i type exit
> I get "the disk drive for" * "is not ready yet or not 
> present" message
> 
> I press S and has to manually mount the raid array :( 
>