Description of problem: Kickstart install of F7 on Sun v40z with 5 SCSI drives with RAID5 and RAID1 devices, however on boot RAID1 is not available. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Default F7 x86_64 installation media How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install system with RAID1 holding /boot and RAID5 holding all else. 2. Observe kernel panic on boot. Actual results: md: personality for level 1 is not loaded! mdadm: failed to RUN_ARRAY /dev/md1: Invalid argument Expected results: Kernel modules for RAID1 and RAID5 to be loaed in initrd. Additional info: With my attached KS file only the Xen kernel was installed, but I booted off the rescue CD and installed the plain kernel which also didn't add both personalities. There also seems to be some confusion over anaconda's treatment of 'raid --device' or my understanding of it. With the following config: raid pv.a0e0 --level=RAID5 --fstype="physical volume (LVM)" --device=md0 --spares=1 raid.a0 raid.b0 raid.c0 raid.d0 raid.e0 raid /boot --level=RAID1 --fstype=ext3 --device=md1 --spares=3 raid.a1 raid.b1 raid.c1 raid.d1 raid.e1 I got an error from anaconda that said md1 was already defined. I then swapped the device args and install completed, but failed to boot as previously described in this bug.
Created attachment 155917 [details] Kickstart Configuration
A workaround is to place the following in the kickstart file. Modify as appropriate if not using xen kernel. %post mv /boot/initrd-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen.img /boot/initrd-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen.img.bak mkinitrd --with=raid1 /boot/initrd-2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen.img 2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen
(My md0/md1 assignments reported above have been swapped as described in bug #244126 such that I settled down with md0=raid1, and md1=raid5 as described below) I just did an upgrade to F8 and again had an initrd that failed to load both the raid1 and raid5 personalities. I believe this is due to an improper mdadm.conf being generated by anaconda and then used by mkinitrd. Before upgrading to F8 my F7 mdadm.conf contained: # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda DEVICE partitions MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=e647ace4:b1ebaab8:a97a4567:fdb90984 ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid5 num-devices=4 uuid=b5aadbd3:80af1e49:ce9ad803:1070be6c After the upgrade it contained: # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda DEVICE partitions MAILADDR root ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 uuid=e647ace4:b1ebaab8:a97a4567:fdb90984 Upon restoring the mdadm.conf and running mkinitrd with the "--with=raid1 --with=raid456" we got a working initrd. p.s. FYI # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid1] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sde1[2](S) sdd1[3](S) sdc1[4](S) sdb1[1] 513984 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid5 sda2[0] sdd2[4](S) sde2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] 210346752 blocks level 5, 256k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
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