dmraid & mkinitrd under F10 x86_64

Raymond C. Rodgers sinful622 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 17:22:32 UTC 2008


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




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