>[ Monday, December 13, 1999 ] Chris M wrote:
> > My first attempt at software RAID (I usually use the ICP Vortex cards).
> > I got RH 6.1 to install and it created a nice RAID 0 partition from 2
> > SCSI disks of 9 Gig each on the Adaptec 2940U2W card. Then I needed
> > to rebuild the kernel to include some other options and this is where
> > things go awry. Now when I boot I get the following around the time it
> > is trying to clean/mount /dev/md0:
> >
> > /proc/mdstat Bad file descriptor
> > /dev/md0 Invalid argument
> > /dev/md0 must be a nonpersistenc RAID0 or LINEAR array!
>
>I'm curious which things were left out of the 6.1 kernel that you needed
>to rebuild your own kernel for.
transparent proxy support, firewall, etc.
>
>Which kernel source did you use for rebuilding?
>Which raid patch did you use?
>Which raidtools did you get and install?
2.12.2-20 sources.
Chris
>
>My guess would be that you didn't patch your kernel... try using
>an -ac patch or one of the kernel.org daemons/raid/alpha/ patches
>(2.2.11 patch again 2.2.{11,12,13}
>
>James
>--
>Miscellaneous Engineer --- IBM Netfinity Performance Development