At 14:59 14.10.99 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm installing & testing RAID1 on a rh6.1 server. 2 18 GB drives on an
>aic7880.
>
>I've mirrored only 2 partitions so far (/usr & /var). I originally created a
>rescue boot diskette (before I started messing w/ RAID stuff) & it worked. I
>have also re-compiled the kernel to include RAID1 personality, aic7xxx, &
>removed some stuff I'll never need (infrared, token ring, etc).
Looks like you compiled scsi as a module then -
>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno=2
>VFS: cannot open root device 08:02
>kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
Major-8 is scsi, so your kernel is trying to load a module for the scsi
adapter and failing miserably.
>the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda2 as a block device
Obvious consequence of the above :-)
>It boots fine from the hard drive and /dev/sda2 is NOT mirrored yet. I just
>want to make sure I can recover (before I have to). I don't even know how
>any RAID stuff would have affected it, but something has definitely changed.
>I would appreciate any advice. TIA
On the harddisk it probably has an initrd image which proviedes the scsi
module.
Bye, Martin
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