<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Robert L Cochran wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:49472A48.6030308@speakeasy.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">And the output of `ls /dev/mapper` Charles Crayne wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:09:44 -0500 "Raymond C. Rodgers" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sinful622@gmail.com"><sinful622@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">From what I've seen, this can be done through initrd/mkinitrd some how, </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Apparently, I don't understand what you are trying to do. I am running software raid on three i386 machines and one x86_64 machine, and I have never needed any magic. Perhaps if you posted your fstab, and the output of parted -l, I would understand your problem well enough to offer some useful advice. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> fstab: UUID=b601345c-1a2f-464a-ab3d-9a25d528df8d / ext3 defaults 1 1 UUID=9f0b2cc8-7c0e-49f6-8366-483af19fca89 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 UUID=d4c09963-7244-413b-9d85-26ad476b66d6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /media/prime ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 /dev/mapper/nvidia_gdedfbbjp5 /media/safehouse ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 //192.168.0.107/share /media/linkstation cifs users,gid=users,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777 0 0 //192.168.0.107/sharedmedia /media/linkstation_media cifs users,gid=users,file_mode=0666,dir_mode=0777 0 0 /dev/mapper before activating dmraid manually: [root@localhost etc]# ls -l /dev/mapper/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 63 2008-12-16 03:31 control brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 2008-12-16 08:31 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 2008-12-16 03:31 VolGroup00-LogVol01 /dev/mapper after activating dmraid manually (with the command line I've been using since installing F10) [root@localhost etc]# dmraid -a yes nvidia_gdedfbbj RAID set "nvidia_gdedfbbj" was activated RAID set "nvidia_gdedfbbjp2" was activated RAID set "nvidia_gdedfbbjp5" was activated [root@localhost etc]# ls -l /dev/mapper/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 63 2008-12-16 03:31 control brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 2 2008-12-16 11:16 nvidia_gdedfbbj brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 3 2008-12-16 11:16 nvidia_gdedfbbjp2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 4 2008-12-16 11:16 nvidia_gdedfbbjp5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 0 2008-12-16 08:31 VolGroup00-LogVol00 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 1 2008-12-16 03:31 VolGroup00-LogVol01 The goal is to get dmraid activated automatically on boot like it once was, and not need to manually activate it and mount the nvidia_gdedfbbjp5 partition. As you might notice from the fstab, the individual partitions that make up nvidia_gdedfbbjp5 are not listed in the fstab file, yet Fedora is mounting them automatically everytime I boot. From what I learned in the past, that may be related to how the F10 installer saw the machine configured during installation, it decided to build an initrd with them mounted individually. From what I recall from F8 or F9, I had to use mkinitrd with dmraid activated and the nvidia_gdedfbbjp5 device mounted to get it to behave the same way; there was no need to modify /etc/fstab. But I have not been able to duplicate that, nor have I been able to find the instructions that I used previously. Raymond </body> </html>