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

[D. R. Evans]

Chris Sakalis said the following at 06/21/2012 01:15 PM :
> 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 :-(
>>
>>  Doc
>>
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>>
> 
> Sorry for the stupid question, but do you rebuild the init ram image
> after changing your mkinitcpio.conf ?

I don't understand the question, so it's not at all stupid. I'm just following
the instructions on the wiki. The wiki says to edit mkinitcpio.conf
immediately prior to the reboot, so that's what I'm doing. It doesn't mention
any need to rebuild an image (nor how to do it).

  Doc

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