hi christoph
> I'm probably too blind to see the forest for the trees, perhaps one of
> you can help me:
> I took SuSE Linux 6.2, took the stock kernel 2.2.11 and compiled a
> kernel with built in raid1 support. I took the mdutils that come with
> SuSE (I think it's V.0.42 or something close to that). I built a md0
> partition, made a filesystem on it, did cat /proc/mdstat, no errors,
> copied another partition on it, no errors, can access the data on that
> md partition, no errors. The problem came when I tried to boot from that
> partition: while booting, I got a kernel panic and the boot process
> stops.
you used a stock linux-2.2.11 kernel ??
kernel panics are usually wrong linux kernel for your /
( ie...copying /vmlinuz around to different machines etc )
if you booting from floppy.. you need to fix it:
root# rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1 if your / is on /dev/hda1
get the latest raid patches from your favorite kernel site
and apply the raid tools and raid kernel patches to it...
eg: ftp.de.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/daemons/raid/alpha
eg: ftp.de.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/V2.2/linux-2.2.11*
raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz ( kernel patches )
radtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz ( raid tools )
for more info:
http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO
have fun raiding...
alvin
http://www.linux-consulting.com/Raid - raid stuff..
> I told my problem somebody else and he said, I have to take
> kernel 2.2.6 and apply the latest patches, anything else (later kernel
> with no extra patches applied) will fail. Now, I thought, when I get so
> far with creating the md0 partition, than the building of the raid1
> system should have worked ok and my error lies somewhere else. Can
> somebody please confirm that I have to use kernel 2.2.6 and apply
> patches? Do I have to use raidtools .9 or can I use the mdutils that
> come with SuSE? I'm not very experienced with Linux and the thought of
> having to apply patches and compile the raidtools scares me. Usually I'm
> not able to get software to compile right so I would rather not have to
> do it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Christoph Martyn
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