Starting RAID on boot
James Thorpe writes:
Hi list,
I've configured two drives in a machine for RAID1, and once the machine
is up and running I can
mdadm --assemble /dev/md0
mount /dev/md0 /mirror
No problems. My question is - how do I get it to do this automatically
on boot? I've found references to /etc/init.d/mdadm, but that doesn't
seem to exist on my install (FC9).
Although there are several ways to do this, I would suggest this approach:
* Add /dev/md0 to /etc/fstab.
* Run: mkinitrd /boot/initrd.new `uname -r`
* Reboot. At the grub prompt, edit the initrd command line, and replace your
existing initrd image filename with initrd.new
* If you succesfully end up booting, with /dev/md0 getting mounted by
default, replace your usual initrd image filename with initrd.new
This hinges on mkinitrd succesfully detecting that you're running RAID, and
inserting the necessary startup voodoo into initrc.
Or, you can always edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and manually add your mdadm and
mount commands. But that's a rather boring way to do it. The other way, you
have to deal with the excitement of being one typo away from a
temporarily-unbootable brick. That's much more fun, IMO.
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