Hello Neil, thank you for your help - devfs=nomount fixed my problem. with regards, Oliver > On Sunday January 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > on my machine (x86) I've debian2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.16 + raidtools 0.9 > > running. No problems. Yesterday I installed kern 2.4.0 with the same > > configuration like 2.2.16. I added following to the boot params: > > > > root=/dev/md0 md=0,/dev/hde1,/dev/hdg1 > > > > If I boot 2.4.0 I can see following: > > > > ... > > <init of raid> > > raid:0 md-size is 249728 blocks > > raid0: conf->smallest->size is 249728 blocks > > raid0: nb_zone is 1 > > raid0: blocking 8 bytes for hash > > md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device <<<------ > > <...> > > ... autorun DONE > > md: loading md0 > > ... md0 already autodetected -use raid=noautodetect > > <...> > > Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 > > fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/md0 (null): > > The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 > > filesystem. > > > > > > The filessystem is clean because I can mount it with kernel 2.2.16 without > > problems. Maybe kernel 2.4.0 does the wrong in updating the RAIS superblock > > on md0. > > Please help! > > > > My guess - based on incomplete info - is that you have compiled in > devfs and told it to automount /dev. > If this could be the case, try booting with the extra option: > > devfs=nomount > > The problem would be that /etc/fstab expects to find /dev/md0, but > devfs only provides /dev/md/0 - until devfsd is running, which > presumbly isn't until after fsck completes. > > If that isn't the case I need more detail: > > 1/ I assume that your root filesystem is a raid0 array of /dev/hde1 > and /dev/hdg1. Is that correct? > 2/ What happens when you add the "raid=noautodetect" boot option as > suggested in the log? > 3/ What happens if you boot *without* the md=0,.... option? > > NeilBrown > > > > with regards, > > Oliver > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
