I never thought I would have trouble mounting a raid volume.


As is normal I want to mount /dev/sdb1 (raid volume) at boot time through fstab.

On boot I get:

fsck.ext3 no such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdb1


In the maintenance shell i can mount all the partitions fine using

mount -a


Even more interesting there are no mount problems when there is a disk in the DVD drive.


3ware raid.
ext3
/dev/sdb1

RHEL4 64_x86

my fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /data ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0



Cheers

Aaronj

I think I may have to re-install.

just a wild guess

maybe accessing something can cause the raid to initialize correctly, it is possible that some program does this after mounting the partition

a possible work around is to specify 'noauto' in the fstab as an option
make a script with a with a high number in /etc/init.d which mount this sdb1
(look at other scripts in the same directory)

tlowk