A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005, Qiangning Hong wrote: > > >>As grub cannot be setup on RAID0 (neither RAID 1+0 nor RAID 0+1), I have >>to create a four-partion RAID1 with /dev/sd[abcd]1 and mount it as /boot. >> >>Then I want both my / and /var are RAID10. I use the following schema: >> >>/dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc3 /dev/sdd3 >> | | | | >> +--(RAID1)---+ +---(RAID1)--+ >> | | >> /dev/md3 /dev/md4 >> | | >> +---------(RAID0)----------+ >> | >> /dev/md5 >> >>and mount /dev/md5 as /. The same as /dev/sd[abcd]4 for a /dev/md8 as /var. >> >>After mkraid, I followed the Gentoo Handbook and installed system, build >>all RAID and driver mapping options into kernel. But after reboot, >>kernel panic! The error message says it can not mount / on /dev/md5 >>because it doesn't exist. > > > Is RAID support in your kernel?
Yes, I compiled in (not as module) all the options under "Device Driver --> Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)" > Did you use mdadm to make the arrays? No, I create /etc/raidtab by hand and run mkraid for each md device, following the steps of http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID -- Qiangning Hong http://www.hn.org/hongqn (RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/hongqn) Registered Linux User #396996 Get Firefox! <http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=67907&t=1> Thunderbird! <http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=67907&t=183> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
