Re: System problems - some progress

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Lindsay Haisley <[email protected]> wrote:
> The root of this problem is that on the old kernel, there are both
> a /dev/hda1 and a /dev/sda1.  The former is a partition on an old PATA
> drive, while the latter is a proper component of md0, but when
> everything becomes /dev/sdNx, there's an obvious conflict and the RAID
> subsystem is getting confused and is obviously not seeing it's sda1.

Possible alternative is to disable raid autodetection and define the
arrays by UUID in /etc/mdadm.conf so hopefully the device names become
irrelevant at that point.