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From: Alexander Shenkin <al@shenkin.org>
To: Roger Heflin <rogerheflin@gmail.com>
Cc: antlists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>,
	Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Raid-6 won't boot
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 07:47:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f393884-dc48-c03e-f734-f9880d9eed96@shenkin.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAMCDee6TcJ_wR6rkQw5V02KyqPQ+xDf+bK+pQPbbfaptO_Tvg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks Roger.  dmesg has nothing in it referring to md126 or md127....
any other thoughts on how to investigate?

thanks,
allie

On 3/27/2020 3:55 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
> A non-assembled array always reports raid1.
> 
> I would run "dmesg | grep md126" to start with and see what it reports it saw.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 10:29 AM Alexander Shenkin <al@shenkin.org> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Wol,
>>
>> Booting in SystemRescueCD and looking in /proc/mdstat, two arrays are
>> reported.  The first (md126) in reported as inactive with all 7 disks
>> listed as spares.  The second (md127) is reported as active
>> auto-read-only with all 7 disks operational.  Also, the only
>> "personality" reported is Raid1.  I could go ahead with your suggestion
>> of mdadm --stop array and then mdadm --assemble, but I thought the
>> reporting of just the Raid1 personality was a bit strange, so wanted to
>> check in before doing that...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Allie
>>
>> On 3/26/2020 10:00 PM, antlists wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2020 17:07, Alexander Shenkin wrote:
>>>> I surely need to boot with a rescue disk of some sort, but from there,
>>>> I'm not sure exactly when I should do.  Any suggestions are very welcome!
>>>
>>> Okay. Find a liveCD that supports raid (hopefully something like
>>> SystemRescueCD). Make sure it has a very recent kernel and the latest
>>> mdadm.
>>>
>>> All being well, the resync will restart, and when it's finished your
>>> system will be fine. If it doesn't restart on its own, do an "mdadm
>>> --stop array", followed by an "mdadm --assemble"
>>>
>>> If that doesn't work, then
>>>
>>> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid#When_Things_Go_Wrogn
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Wol

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-28  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-26 17:07 Raid-6 won't boot Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-26 22:00 ` antlists
2020-03-27 15:27   ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-27 15:55     ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-28  7:47       ` Alexander Shenkin [this message]
2020-03-28 13:36         ` Roger Heflin
     [not found]           ` <c8185f80-837e-9654-ee19-611a030a0d54@shenkin.org>
2020-03-30 15:53             ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-30 16:13               ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-30 17:21                 ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-30 20:05                   ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-30 20:45                     ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-31  0:16                       ` antlists
2020-03-31 10:08                       ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-31 13:53                         ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-31 14:28                           ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-31 14:43                             ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-31 16:03                               ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-31 16:13                         ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-31 16:16                           ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-31 16:20                             ` Alexander Shenkin
2020-03-31 16:30                               ` Roger Heflin
2020-03-28 10:47     ` antlists

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