Walt Shekrota wrote:

> Walt Shekrota wrote:
>
>> 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
>> built with non mdadm tools
>> ie raidtools
>> has been working for some time
>> Occasionally in upgrades I might have to create devices or raidstart or
>> something.
>> This is a data only non lvm ext3 raid5 of roughly 144g (3x73g)
>> So I recently and perhaps too casually bumped the kernel up to 23 from 21
>> worried about some other problem I was having with udev. Yes I'm bleeding
>> all over, I hate it when that happens.
>> So at boot the volume would normally be mounted as in fstab. Now it stops
>> in a shell.


I cleared this all up by using mdadm and doing an assemble.
I'm thinking the old raidtools are having an issue with devices possibly by
my udev issues.
Not sure. I might be missing some subtle option in the kernel build causing
this cascade of issues.
-Walt