OK. I got it to boot but failed at
failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, ernno=2
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:08
Any ideas, OK a little hint: I notice alot of messages about /lib/ips.o
being unable to resolve symbols to a whole heap of names... is this a clue
or is it like you said "the filesystem is ext1"
???
Getting Desperate,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:29 PM
To: George Vieira
Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
I beleive ext1 had a limit on it. But i dont know why youd be running
ext1
a 30gb partition is probably not a great idea as youll lose *alot* of
space.
(the whole allocation size thingy)
as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if
there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use
them all happily
Dean "Useless Waffle" Hamstead
George Vieira wrote:
>
> Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk.
> Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being
able
> to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it.
>
> Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for
data
> only and not something stupid like / or /boot.
>
> Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large
like
> 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was
the
> limit but this time it didn't complain??????
>
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Network Administrator
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM
> To: George Vieira
> Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
>
> > AAahaaaaa!!!! Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid
> > support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to
> 4.30
> > and download the 4.30 drivers for linux.
>
> Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =)
>
> > I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it
worked
> > beautifully.
> > Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda)
> 34GB
> > drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because
it's
> > running hardware raid not software.
>
> sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with
> hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block
> device (basically) hence hardware raid =)
>
> Sean
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