> Basically I've got a ASUS A7V133 RAID m/b with 1G ram, althon 1500XP and > two 40G > 7200rpm disks. One disk on the main controller, the other on the > onboard promise controller. > > Booted mandrake 9.0 disk #1, partitioned as follows: > > /dev/hda1 256M - /boot [ext2] > /dev/hda2 24G - added to md0 > /dev/hda3 1G swap > /dev/hds4 reat - addes to md1 > > /dev/hde1 256M - /tmp [reiserfs] > /dev/hde2 24G - added to md0 > /dev/hde3 1G swap > /dev/hde4 reat - addes to md1 > > md0 is mode 0 / > md1 is mode 1 /home > > Installed mandrake, went fine, rebooted, failed ! > > Initially because I had 1G ram it used enterprise kernel, removed 512M > of RAM, reinstalled, > failed at reboot....
try recompiling the kernel with built in md, raid-0 and probably promise driver and the fs you used on other PC, make boot floppy , in case you don't have place on the floppy skip all modules, if you have a ZIP drive and can boot from it use it :) start your installed raid system with the floppy or ZIP linux root=/dev/md0 init single recompile the kernel the same way, install it, run lilo & everything is ok if you use a system with the same gcc libc ... you can copy the modules and the kernel from the first compilation to the raid system, so you wont need the second compilation > If raidtab is on /etc how does bootloader/kernel know about md0 & md1. > Fails to load > > Tried a couple of times with no luck > > o should I boot from the second install CD ? > o Do I need the enterprise kernel ? > o Should /etc be on /dev/hde1 [ext2] rather than /tmp? > > -- > Steve > >
