On 12/16/2010 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 16.12.2010 03:30, schrieb David C. Rankin:
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6 ...
Root device '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it.
ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/mapper/nvidia_haheegdbp6'
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[ ramfs \ ]#
You have an almost fully functional system in that ramfs environment. Look at the output of 'ls -l /dev/mapper' to see if the devices are indeed missing.
Look at 'ls -l /dev/sd*' to see if your hard drives even show up. If they do, try to issue 'dmraid -ay' again and see if the /dev/mapper devices show up now.
This might just be a timing problem: dmraid -ay might be called before /dev/sd* is fully set up and detected - we had these problems in the past already. The 'sleep' hook put after the udev hook can work around that.
If it isn't a timing problem, then your hard drives are probably not detected. The reasons for this can be manifold, but it never hurts to try if the fallback image shows the same behaviour.
Thank you Thomas, I'll go give it a try and report back. In the mean time, I have updated: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_with_Fake_RAID#Install_GRUB with some additional detail to help people with the install. I just filled in the spots where there were a few gaps in the steps that could leave you scratching your head if you hadn't done it before. Please take a look and make sure it is OK. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com