I have a RaQXTR with the RaQ550 OS installed. It crashes too often and I have decided I need a kernel that can support the hardware as it is. And I also need to know how to make changes to the ROM.
Is there anyone who can give me advice on what I need to do to successfully build a 2.4 kernel that will work on my RaQ? I have heard from people running the 550 OS without a problem on the XTR. They have 1GB of RAM and 2 drives. I have 2GB and 4 drives. I have built Linux Kernels in the past but I have never built a RaQ kernel. The OSRCD gave me a choice of RAID0 or RAID5 when I installed. The first time I did it I chose RAID5 and wound up with a single 30GB drive - being reported as the space from the four disk array. I chose RAID0 the next time and / and /var were set up as RAID1 with /home on RAID0. RAID0, RAID1, and RAID5 are all OK with me. I would gladly try to build a custom OSRCD if that will help - and I'm guessing I will probably have to. I have no reason to believe that I have disk problems per se. The memory is recognized but their seem to be issues with swapping buffereing and page faults, that make me think the kernel is not handling them correctly either as a timing issue. It is even possible(ish) that there is bad memory but the problem does not occur when running off of the kernel in ROM. I downloaded the memtest program from sun - but it tests the amount of memory reported by the BIOS - which is 512 on my machine. However. as shown with the partial output from top, the raid1d processes are alway running and also mdrecoveryd and raid1syncd (though their have been times raid1syncd was not running). Since I don't have a 550 type 550 I don't know what is normal. 1 root 8 0 528 528 464 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:06 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CP 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:08 kupdated 7 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 pagebufd 8 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:05 pagebuf_io_C 10 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 11 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 raid1d 12 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 raid1syncd 13 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:03 raid1d 14 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 raid1syncd 15 root -1 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:09 raid1d 16 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0 0.0 0.0 0:04 raid1syncd -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
