Bug 253677

Summary: mdadm does not find raid at boot-time
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tobias Bradtke <webwurst>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tobias Bradtke 2007-08-21 06:52:28 UTC
Description of problem:

mdadm does not find raid at boot-time.

I created a raid-5-array with anaconda, added later other devices and all worked
fine. 


Version-Release number of selected component:

# mdadm --version
mdadm - v2.6.2 - 21st May 2007

  
Actual results:

After a reboot mdadm gives an error:

> Red Hat nash 6.0.9 starting
> insmod: error inserting '/lib/raid456.ko': -1 File exists
> mdadm: no devices found for /dev/md1
>    Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
>    No volume groups found
>    Volume group "vg_raid" not found
> Unable to access resume device (/dev/vg_raid/lv_fedora_root)
> ...


Expected results:

No Problem.


Additional info:

Booting form the rescue-disc works without any problem, the raid is accessible.


Workaround:

The solution to this is to remove the kernel and re-install.
I found it here:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/ataraid-list/2007-July/msg00025.html

Comment 1 Doug Ledford 2007-08-24 16:13:39 UTC
Removing and reinstalling the kernel isn't the real fix.  It's just that
removing and reinstalling the kernel forces a rebuild of the initrd, and it's
the rebuilding of the initrd that solves the problem.  My guess is that during
installation a broken initrd image is built, probably due to package ordering or
something like that.  I'm reassigning this to the anaconda component.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 14:03:54 UTC
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