On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Ola Samuelson said:
OS>> How big are your disks? I just did this with 2.2.12 (original kernel) and
OS>> two 13.6 GB disks. It works fine here though lilo complained a bit as well
OS>> when I re-ran /sbin/lilo to add my vga statement for framebuffer. From the
OS>> look of it you did this with a single partition plus swap... I didn't do it
OS>> that way... I'm going to attach my raidtab for you to eyeball and see if it
OS>> helps.
OS>>
OS>
OS>They are 8,8G each partitioned according to:
OS>hda
OS>hda1 8600M
OS>hda5 grow(which gives approx 150M)
OS>
OS>Same for hdc
OS>
OS>Raid1 created with large partitions EXT2
OS>Raid1 created with small partitions SWAP
OS>
OS>THEN, I Raided the partitions during RH6.1 installation procedure.
OS>And it works which is why I think the actual problem
OS>is that I have to use initrd to build a ramdisk containing
OS>tools(raid1.o etc ) to start md0 BEFORE actually booting.
OS>Does this make sense?
Absolutely... you did not run mkinitrd to create a new image for the boot
loader? Since you're running IDE disks I can see why you wouldn't have but
in this situation I don't see how you can avoid it... it's the old "chicken
or the egg" story!
OS>I tried using the ramdisk the installer used but then there was
OS>a raid1.o version mismatch(it was at least doing something)
OS>which is why I believe a new rd is a possible solution.
Yup... this sounds like you need mkinitrd!
OS>Can this be the solution? How do I make a new one?
The command line for mkinitrd is pretty simple...
If you just type that on the command line you see:
usage: mkinitrd [--version] [-v] [-f] [--ifneeded] [--preload <module>]
[--omit-scsi-modules] [--omit-raid-modules] [--with=<module>]
[--image-version] <initrd-image>
<kernel>
(ex: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img 2.2.5-15)
"mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.13.img 2.2.13" would probably help but you might
need/have to include "--with=raid1.o". Give it a shot and see what happens.
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