dmraid & mkinitrd under F10 x86_64 (No Puppies Harmed)

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
> 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
This is my second attempt to get the message noticed and possibly get a 
response. I'd like to note that no puppies, partitions, or disks were 
harmed in the making of this email, or in the upgrade from F9 to F10.

Raymond