My apologies for the delay. Real life and everything, ya know... :| On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 18:11, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > That looks like the initrd.img is usable - although I don't know what > "raidautorun" is, can you locate this script in the filesystem?
No, I'm not sure where it is. :( The inner workings of the kernel are still a mystery to me... > - but you > might want to investigate it a little more thorough. Compare the two different > versions and see if anything looks different (different devices in /dev, > availability of /etc/raidtab etc.). *scratches head* I could imaging possible differences in /dev, but /etc/raidtab is an actual file... Why should that change when booting with a different kernel? > Another thing you could do is adjust linuxrc somewhat to make it produce some > output. F.e. verbose the insmod, put an lsmod after the insmod (plus a sleep > of a few secs to follow the output) to see if the module is actually loaded, > etc. Now I can figure out how to edit the script, but does saving it and gzipping the image again make it usable? > By the way, is the raid1.o module loaded on the running system? Do you get > errors when loading it? If you can load the module you could just recreate the > array as a last resort (not sure if this is possible on a running system, > probably need to boot a rescue cd, and be aware not to loose your data (try on > a test system first)). Not the neatest solution, I know, but the second disk > is no use to you like this anyway. I'm able to use the system, I just boot from the 2.4.9 kernel. The machine is not local, it's at an ISP, and having alternate methods of booting is a bit tricky... Here's what I can tell from browsing around the system. The two initrd images for 2.4.9 and 2.4.20, respectfully, are of equal size when decompressed, and are virtually identical. Files, modules, scripts, etc. (Though when looking at the images before decompressing them the older one is about twice the size... perhaps just not as good of compression?) This is really odd. What could be so different between the two kernels? The newer one was even downloaded through up2date, and works perfectly except for having no RAID. I would have liked to go through Red Hat Technical Support, but I have very limited funds. Hosting the server for non-profit takes enough of it, too. If this gets dragged out long enough I may have to bite the bullet, though. Argh. What am I missing? :( -- Ricky Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planetfurry.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
