[ILUG] Raid 1 boot error

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Frank Murphy wrote:

> Did the following
>
> used fdisk  to add hdb1 & hdc1 [both partitions made same size]
>
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 (hdc1)
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1

Eh, this is wrong. 1. the order is wrong way around, 2. you mkfs the 
md device:

1. mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=0 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1
2. mkfs -t ext3 -R stride=16 /dev/md0

> (it believed partitions to be ext2, fdisk-l shows type 83)

The type should be 0xfd for an Linux MD partition.

regards,
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