W dniu 4/2/2013 7:40 PM, Curtis Shimamoto pisze:

On 04/02/13 at 09:54am, Łukasz Michalski wrote:

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Hi,

I am a new arch user and this is my first post on this list, so welcome everyone :-)

29th I upgraded my system using pacman -Syu and after that my system does not boot.

The problem is that I have root partition on software raid1 and for some reason scripts from initramfs are not able to create /dev/md device and mount it on /new_root.

I am using mdadm hook.

Have you tried using the mdadm_udev hook? I think this is the better way to go. In my experience in the past, it was certainly the faster more reliable hook.

Yes, I tried, but effect was the same. I only checked it once and reverted back to mdadm hoping that would be easier to make work something that was already working in the past. Regards, Łukasz

On 04/03/13 15:31, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote:

2013/4/2 Łukasz Michalski :

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I am not sure what hooks/mdadm is supposed to do, for me it looks like it I have to add md=/dev/md2 to command line when booting?

Do you have mdadm.conf in your initcpio? mdadm hook uses /etc/mdadm.conf or partitions from command line, not both.

Yes, my /etc/mdadm.conf is copied there. I can call mdassemble from emergency shell and my raid devices are created.

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Now during booting I need to wait for "emergency shell" and mount root partition manually this way:

# mdassemble # mount /dev/md2 /new_root # exit

This hook is defined in /usr/lib/initcpio/hooks/mdadm, it should start mdassemble if /etc/mdadm.conf exists and have size > 0.

I added run_hook at the end of this script and it works with my /etc/mdadm.conf on already running system: [root@serenity initcpi]# set -x [root@serenity initcpi]# source ./mdadm ++ run_hook ++ local i= mdconfig=/etc/mdadm.conf ++ modprobe md_mod ++ '[' -n '' ']' ++ '[' -s /etc/mdadm.conf ']' ++ /sbin/mdassemble mdadm: failed to set writable for /dev/md2: Device or resource busy mdadm: failed to set writable for /dev/md3: Device or resource busy mdadm: failed to set writable for /dev/md1: Device or resource busy ++ printf '\033]0;%s@%s:%s\007' root serenity /home/zork/tmp/initcpi The question is why it does not call mdassemble in initcpio environment. I will try to debug it at next maintenance window. Regards, Łukasz