That sounds correct as those unresolved symbols sounded like the kernel
didn't have or was missing something.
Sounds great people giving suggestions but how do I compile things into the
kernel when I can't even boot?
That's another chicken and the egg.
I have to get into the system to give it the raid module support but I have
to get there first..
Is there a way at boot time to load the module?
-----Original Message-----
From: Ho Ming Shun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 6:35 PM
To: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:37:12PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
> 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
You said you downloaded the device drivers. That means you downloaded
modules. The root device cannot be built as a module, but rather must be
compiled into the kernel.
>From what I gathered, it worked previously coz that was the installation
disk, and the raid disk was not the root partition during installation.
The error message is due to the kernel trying to load a raid driver from a
raid drive. Kinda like a chicken and egg problem.
Try to get the sources and compile it into the kernel.
-- Ho Ming Shun
>
> 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
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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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
> > http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
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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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