dmraid & mkinitrd under F10 x86_64

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> Under F8 or F9, I had managed to build an initrd image that would 
> automatically mount my non-boot dmraided drives without any effort on 
> my part; this was obviously a while ago, and I'm no expert on 
> mkinitrd. When I installed F10, it wiped out that configuration, and 
> is instead intent upon mounting the individual drives and not 
> initialize dmraid at all. I've been trying to get this fixed for a few 
> days now, but can't seem to come up with an answer. Can any one give 
> me an answer?
>
> After unmounting the individual drives, I currently activate the 
> dmraid as root with:
>
> dmraid -a yes  nvidia_gdedfbbj
>
> Then mount the desired partitions. The device mapper device files for 
> the partitions are in my /etc/fstab with an appropriate mounted path, 
> which makes it a simple "mount /media/drive" command possible once 
> dmraid has been activated.
>
> But mkinitrd seems to be where I'm having the problem. I just tried 
> using --force-raid-probe which is listed in the usage notes (mkinitrd 
> -h), but apparently it isn't actually available as a command line 
> option. Would using "--with=dmraid" work?
>
> Thanks,
> Raymond
I hope this was just lost amid the packagekit threads... Any one got an 
answer for me?
Thanks,
Raymond