[Cialug] virtualbox

[Dave Hala Jr]

I was watching the boot process and raid driver is loading. So, its
gotta be a label/partition thing.

On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 08:06 -0500, Paul Gray wrote:
> On 09/19/2011 07:55 AM, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> >
> > Does it make a differance if there is a hardware raid setup with the
> > following partitions? For example on the original machine the partitions
> > are:
> >
> > /dev/rd/c0d0p2         16G  7.3G  7.7G  49% /
> > /dev/rd/c0d0p1         99M   85M  8.8M  91% /boot
> > none                  752M     0  752M   0% /dev/shm
> >
> > the drive is /dev/rd/c0d0, so the command for the grub entry would be:
> > "ROOT=/dev/rd/c0d0" , right?
> 
> That makes more sense (but it's more ominous). It's likely that your 
> kernel doesn't see the disk when it's booting up because the module to 
> tap into the raid isn't being loaded from your initrd.  Then you have 
> the chicken-and-egg issue - you need the module loaded so as to access 
> the drive, but the module is sitting on the drive.
> 
> If that's the case, figure out what module drives your hardware raid, 
> and roll it into your initrd.
>