[arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot

[Chris Sakalis]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:21 PM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Jérôme M. Berger" said the following at 06/21/2012 11:13 AM :
>> D. R. Evans wrote:
>>> Paul Gideon Dann said the following at 06/21/2012 03:41 AM :
>>>> On Wednesday 20 Jun 2012 11:27:54 D. R. Evans wrote:
>>>>> When I try to reboot, I receive the error message:
>>>>>   ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found
>>>>>   ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0
>>>> To me, this sounds like the RAID array is being given the wrong name, or the
>>>> mdadm hook isn't being added to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Extract from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (sorry about any possible wrapping issue):
>>>
>>> MODULES="dm_mod"
>>> ...
>>       Try adding "raid1" there...
>>
>
> Extract of /etc/mkinicpio.conf now reads:
> MODULES="dm_mod raid1"
> ...
> HOOKS="base udev mdadm_udev lvm2 autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems
> usbinput fsck"
>
> It made no difference, though :-(
>
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Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image
after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ?

--Chris Sakalis