On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:00:13PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Marc Singer wrote: > > I'm testing this kernel on a machine that resently boots to 2.6.7 with > > no initrd and, therefore, all drivers for boot are compiled into the > > kernel. > > There are four drives in the array, all with type 0xfd. The > > 2.6.7 kernel finds them automatically. The 2.6.8 package does not, > > but that isn't the issue as this device isn't needed at boot-time. > > Did you add the needed md and raid modules to your initrd?
Since I don't care about it a boot-up, no. The root partition as well as /usr and /sbin is on an IDE drive. > > Once the kernel boots, I load the raid5 module and look at > > /proc/mdstat. It looks OK. mdadm --assemble /dev/md0, however, > > crashes. I haven't saved error messages, though I could write then to > > a file if need be. > > you need to put the modules into /etc/mkinitrd/modules, and recreate you > initrd with > > mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 > > and rerun lilo, if you use it. > > This should fix the problem. This isn't a boot-up problem. The MD driver was crashing when I loaded the modules by hand after the system booted. Of course, I'll try it anyway just to see if it makes a difference. Thanks for responding.
