Hi everyone,
I am a Dell PowerEdge SC420 user with two SATA drives on which I am trying to create a RAID1 software array. I have tried to reinstall the system about three times with different tips and ticks and I end up here
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. VFS: Cannot open root device "md2" or unknown-block(0,0) Plesae append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Basically I have boiled it down to the fact that, either GRUB cant locate my drives or my Kernel does not have SATA support (my kernel definately has RAID support)
Can anyone confirm if SATA support has to be compiled into the hardened-2.6.7-r9 kernel or is SATA support a standard feature in Linux kernels?
There is no such thing as a "standard feature" in the kernel. Almost everything can be disabled. I'm pretty sure that you'll have to enable SATA support in the kernel as it probably isn't a *default* feature.
-- Andrew Gaffney Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
