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! -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450 Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER