On 13/07/11 14:57, Brett Parker wrote:
Quite possibly, what's the line in /etc/fstab for it? Is it set to "auto"? Cos if it is, change it to ext4, and see what happens :)
This is where I get confused. Well one of the places, anyway :-)
At this stage in the process is fstab relevant? /etc/fstab doesn't exist, although if the mount had worked it would have been at /root/etc/fstab (but if it's needed for the mount to work then surely it would have been in /etc already?).
To cut the process short, I decided to wipe the second disk and put that in and re-install, as much as anything to see whether it was the degraded array causing the problem - which it appears it was; with two disks, md0 has mounted fine as ext4 and booted. So my guess is that the ext4 thing was a(nother) red herring.
If I get chance I might see whether it'll now boot with just the one disk, although I didn't really have the day spare that I've just spent trying to get this up and running so I have a bit of catching up to do now!