Does your boot floppy have an initrd.img that contains the raid(x).o module
you need to boot the raid partition?
>At 03:31 PM 8/18/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi
> I'm trying to establish a software raid1 after installing linux
>(redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14) in the first drive. I went to a certain extent
>but could not succeed completely.
> Here is what I am doing..
>
> 1) Install linux in /dev/sda ( boot partition /dev/sda1, root partition
>/dev/sda5, swap /dev/sda6)
> 2) fdisk the second drive (/dev/sdb) with the same size partitions as
>/dev/sda but converted the type to 0xfd
> 3) Create /etc/raidtab using failed_disk for /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5..
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> .
> .
> device
>/dev/sdb5
> raid-disk 0
> device
>/dev/sda5
> failed-disk 1
>
> reiddev /dev/md1
> .
> .
> device
>/dev/sdb1
> raid-disk 0
> device
>/dev/sda1
> failed-disk 1
>
> 4) mkraid /dev/md0
> mkraid /dev/md1
> I checked the devices in /proc/mdstat and they looked fine
>
> 5) mount /dev/md0 /mnt ; mount /dev/md1 /mnt/boot
> 6) cp directories from / to /mnt except (proc,mnt)
> 7) cd /mnt/etc; changed the fstab..
> /dev/md0 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/md1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1
>
> 8) umount /mnt/boot; umount /mnt; raidstop /dev/md0 ; raidstop /dev/md1
>
> Everything went on fine till now. Then I tried to boot from a floppy with
>root=/dev/md0
> But the kernel panicked...
>
> I would be very grateful if anyone could help me out with this..
> Thank you very much
>
> --rezwanul
>
>
>
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