Let's just make it clearer. 2.2.20-smp works fine on the box (serial boot OK, no "unaligned panic" either) , but I still can't do any softRaid Stuff.
Regarding raid, this 2.2.20 comes from stable Deabian release, and using the raidtools from the SAME debian release won't work. That's why I considered using 2.4.x., and probably raidtools2. I also considered 2.4.x because of vlan support, but that's not a big issue. Now the question : I can work for myself trying to patch 2.2.20 to get raid stuff work (but I think It's gonna be hard because it's already partially patched by debian maintainer) or I could work for anybody willing to boot 2.4.10 via a serial console (Anyhow, I can't beleive that nobody's using 2.4.10 on some Netra boxes. How come they do not have this problem???), and enjoy helping the community :). But for this, I'd need some troubleshooting hints. That's what I asked for in my previous mail... Thxs & Rgds G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabbione" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Guillaume Lécroart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:00 PM Subject: Re: HELP 2.4 booting on a serial console (resend) > Guillaume Lécroart wrote: > > > That's what I'm doing right now, but I would need specific features from 2.4 > > (802.1q vlans, softRaid...), and I can't figure out how to have them work > > with the debian 2.2.20 krnl. > > > > Thanks for the advice and the notice for ix86 anyway. > > > > Any hint for troubleshooting ?? > > > > G > > > > I think you should try to boot with 2.2 to see if it's a problem with the serial > > driver in 2.4 (like I experienced). That was the meaning of booting with > an old kernel. Software raid is working on 2.2.20.. regarding other > patches you can always figure out later. Dont you think is more > important now to make it booting correctly??? > > > Fabbione > > -- > Debian GNU/Linux Unstable Kernel 2.4.9 > fabbione on irc.atdot.it #coredump #kchat | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
