Hello Ulf & All,
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Dambacher wrote:
> Hi Alexander
> I had the same problem with autodetect. It seems that they turned of the
> partitition detection mode in favor of a kernel command line. Look for
> ./linux/Documentation/md.txt
> Its something like md=<dev.nr>,<raidlevel>,<dev1>,<dev2>,<dev3>,...
> for new kernel.
Ulf, Thank you for the heads up .
If I remember correctly there is still some limit on the lilo/...
boot command line length ? Yes/No
What is the kicker in having to remove the autodetection ?
Tia , JimL
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> Betreff: Raid 1 autodection problems
> Hi,
> I have a problem with autodection of RAID 1 arrays.
> I am running SuSE Linux 7.1 with an of-the-shelf kernel 2.4.3, where
> aic7xxx and qlogicfc are loaded as modules via initrd.
> I have 2 Raid 1 arrays configured:
> raiddev /dev/md0
...snip...
> The partition type for all partitions is set to 0xfd.
> The arrays work fine if started with raidstart /dev/md0 and raidstart
> /dev/md1.
> They are not autostarted, however, during system start. I tried both
> compiling
> md support into the kernel and as module.
> Here is what I see in /var/log/boot.msg
> ....
> <5>Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
> <6>Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
> <6>md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> <4>md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> <4>EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> <4>EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
> (AW) here the kernel tries to mount /dev/md0 and /dev/md1
> Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
> ....
> Can somebody help me?
> Many thanks in advance ...
> Alexander Warmuth
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