On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:52:32AM -0800, nikp wrote: > Hi Thorsten and Sven. > > Just to complete the draw, right now my situation is this one. > On my machine with the kernel 2.4.24 compiled with the config that i > given to you. > I've got on disk0 a primary partition sda2 formatted ext3 with the > entire os later i,ve created other primary partitions sda4 and sdb4 > and after a raid1 partition with these 2 (md0) formatted the raid > partition ext3 and copied all the files from sda2. > > Now,if i put as root in my boot files (fstab yaboot.conf) sda2, > everything is ok the machine boot and i have access to md0 also > ,instead if i select as root md0, i obtain the error that i shown you > in the first post. > > Obviously ,if i try to boot from openfirmware with a diskette or from > the disk i have the same result. > > Thanks again for your help, hoping to reach the solutions cause i > can't complete the installation and put the machine online without the > raid.
This could be a symptom of the raid drivers compiled as module (same happens with my syjet scsi removable drive, the scsi driver is a module, so root cannot be on it). We need to look into building kenrels with builtin initrd containing modules for this, i think. Friendly, Sven Luther
