Hallo,
I'm probably too blind to see the forest for the trees, perhaps one of
you can help me:
I took SuSE Linux 6.2, took the stock kernel 2.2.11 and compiled a
kernel with built in raid1 support. I took the mdutils that come with
SuSE (I think it's V.0.42 or something close to that). I built a md0
partition, made a filesystem on it, did cat /proc/mdstat, no errors,
copied another partition on it, no errors, can access the data on that
md partition, no errors. The problem came when I tried to boot from that
partition: while booting, I got a kernel panic and the boot process
stops. I told my problem somebody else and he said, I have to take
kernel 2.2.6 and apply the latest patches, anything else (later kernel
with no extra patches applied) will fail. Now, I thought, when I get so
far with creating the md0 partition, than the building of the raid1
system should have worked ok and my error lies somewhere else. Can
somebody please confirm that I have to use kernel 2.2.6 and apply
patches? Do I have to use raidtools .9 or can I use the mdutils that
come with SuSE? I'm not very experienced with Linux and the thought of
having to apply patches and compile the raidtools scares me. Usually I'm
not able to get software to compile right so I would rather not have to
do it.
Thanks in advance,
Christoph Martyn
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