From: Galen Johnson (gjohnson@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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