Hi,
My system setup is such that I use a patched kernel to enable more than 4
multiple devices.
(RAID 0) Also my / device is a raid device.
Using a normal installation floppy, using YaST, I can go to a prompt, do mdadd,
mdrun etc.,
for my / device, then use the YaST option 'Adjustments of installation' ->
'Set target partitions/filesystems', and after pointing it to /dev/md0 as my /
device, it would
then automagically start all the other raid devices, and mount the partitions,
so that I can do
a painless update from SuSE 5.2 -> SuSE 5.3, or whatever, even if all my
filesystems are raid
devices.
Only this will not work, because the kernel on the installation floppy is not
patched to
recognize more than /dev/md[0..3] (I need at least /dev/md[0..7]).
To be able to do this, I need an altered installation floppy, and I tried to
make one myself, but
I got stuck, I know, it's silly.
first I copied the disk to another disk:
cp /dev/fd0 susebootflop
<put in new disk>
cp susebootflop /dev/fd0
Then I mount the disk:
mount /floppy
(it is a msdos/vfat filesystem)
Then I copied the kernel as I want it to the disk, and used it as my new
installation disk.
It will then start with the blue SuSE screen, say loading initdisk.gz, loading
linux, and all is well
up until it says:
"RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00"
This 01:00 is the ramdisk /dev/ram0, so obviously I need to do something along
the lines of
using rdev to make my kernel recognize the ramdisk on the floppy. Probably I
need to alter
some other things as well, but most helpful would be someone, either at SuSE or
this list, to
answer the following question:
How can I make my own custom SuSE installation floppy ??
thanks in advance,
Roland Nagtegaal
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