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Hello all. So I installed Arch within a raid configuration, but it has a boot error preventing me from actually booting successfully. I'm at the point where I need to do the pacman updates and DE/WM installations and stuff. The error I am getting is this:
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/md0
Root device '/dev/md0 doesn't exist. Attempting to create it.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/md0'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off
[ramfs /]#
I did type exit and the same thing comes up. Any advice?
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I have a raid0 install of archlinux which boots from one of the 5 devices in the array on a /boot partition of that device.
What raid system are you using and do you have a /boot partition assigned?
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I have a raid0 install of archlinux which boots from one of the 5 devices in the array on a /boot partition of that device.
What raid system are you using and do you have a /boot partition assigned?
I am running raid5. And I do have a separate partition for /boot. Also a separate partition for swap and / was on the array. At least that is how I remember it.
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Sounds similar to my install altho yours is raid5.
I am having major-minor number fail on a HDD at this time(not a raid arranged HDD).
Many posts regarding the major-minor number fail in recent weeks including mine which is active today.
Some report it as a mkinitcpio problem and solve it by regressing to a prior release.
I have not solved my case and don't expect any resolution soon.
Good luck with yours and I hope you are more successful than I have been!!!
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Yikes. I actually did mine based off of a post you did. So.....yikes. Maybe I neet to put / on a different partition.
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Perhaps. My root is the second partition of all 5 drives. My /boot partition is the first partition of one of the drives. I have a swap partition also on the first partition of one of the drives.
All drives are utilized in /root as partition 2 devices. I have no /home partition...run in root.
EDIT: The problem I am experiencing is on a separate HDD archlinux linux install.
My raid0 is contained in CF flash devices using SATA to CF adapters and is fully functional at this time.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2011-10-02 16:54:29)
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Your / is on the raid array though right? Which is this 2nd partition you talk about right?
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Yowsah! Each CF has two paertitions, 100MB partition#1 and the rest of the CF card (16GB) as partition#2.
Thus, there is 79GB of root.................
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Is this a good or a bad thing? I'm no linux expert, but does / in an array = problems?
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I have been root since I started archlinux in 2003 and never use user.
I am repeatedly told not to do that!
I continue....
Warned in many areas and locked out in others but I continue...............
In order to change a given system, root is required by everyone in archlinux at many diverse instances anyhow!
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alright, so now if the / is not supposed to go on the /dev/md0, should I make / it's own 100MB partition? I'm sorry if I am asking this when I should be looking it up. I'll look it up as well.
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Root is the combo of 5 partition#2 drives and is /dev/md0. I set it up in the install sequence with my FTP install.
EDIT: I installed grub in the /boot partition of 100MB which I mentioned in previous post. It is not in the MBR. I used grub2.
Last edited by lilsirecho (2011-10-03 14:07:08)
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