[Summary] raid problems

From: Galen Johnson <gjohnson_at_trantor.org>
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 23:23:08 EST
Figured it out...turns out when the mirror was set up it had left the 
"forceload: misc/md_raid" line commented out in /etc/system. 
 Uncommenting these lines fixed my problem.  Figured it had to be 
something obvious.

=G=


Galen Johnson wrote:

> Hey,
>
>  I'm having an issue setting up a RAID5 on a solaris 8 box...I'm sure 
> I'm just overlooking something obvious.   I have a machine currently 
> set up with  mirrored boot disks and I am using SDS to add an 
> additional raid device.  Set up using:
>
> #  metadb -a -f -c 2 -l 2068 c1t2d0s2 c1t3d0s2 c1t4d0s2 c1t5d0s2
> #  metainit d0 -r c1t2d0s2 c1t3d0s2 c1t4d0s2 c1t5d0s2
>
> All goes well until I reboot and then I get this error:
>
> md: could not load misc/md_raid
>
> Any thoughts?  The only thing I can think it might be is that I'm not 
> adding the raid db to the area on my mirrors that currently have my 
> mirror metadbs.  While I don't recall this being an issue from other 
> times I've done this.  I've also made sure to 'touch /reconfigure' 
> since I can't drop to the ok prompt to issue a 'boot -r' because my 
> term program is whack.  I've also verified that my disk geometries are 
> identical.  I've looked through the archives but didn't get anything 
> useful back.
>
> =G=
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