In when i did make menuconfig it said in the kernel-help that there was
support,
for booting from a raid linear and raid0 device. Also the HOWTO says u
don't have
to fool around with init scripts anymore cuz in the new raidpatches it can
all b done
without em....
Surge
At 15:14 23/09/99 +0200, Sjoerd Tromp wrote:
>As far as I can see you are using the correct raidtab. I've once set up a
>raid-o device. togheter with somebody else.. for as far as I can remember
>you have to make a initrd with the raidmodules.. and configer lilo to use
>that initrd
>
>Sjoerd Tromp
>
>On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Kelina wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to run a raid0 setup as boot device with ide 2 disks on my
> linux
> > 2.2.12 kernel patched with the latest raidpatch and ide patch and
> > compiled with raid linear and raid 0 support.
> >
> > What i get when booting is the following:
> >
> > Warning: unable to open an initial console
> > Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> >
> > It does detect some raid things, but things fly by too fast to see exactly
> > what.
> >
> > My Config files are the following:
> > /etc/lilo.conf:
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> > label=linux
> > root=/dev/md0
> > append="md=0,0,4,0,/dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1 ether=0,0,0,0,eth1"
> > read-only
> >
> > /etc/raidtab:
> > raiddev /dev/md0
> > raid-level 0
> > nr-raid-disks 2
> > persistent-superblock 1
> > chunk-size 4
> > device /dev/hda1
> > raid-disk 0
> > device /dev/hdc1
> > raid-disk 1
> >
> > I changed both /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdc1 partition types to 0xfd with fdisk.
> > Hda is abt 3 gig with 2 gig of data on it already, hdc is almost 2 gig and
> > completely emtpy. Both hda1 and hdc1 are formatted as ext2.
> >
> > Does any1 know what i'm doing wrong? Am i doing something incredebly
> > stupid? (very possible :-) And most of all Can anyone pleaze help me! :)
> >
> > Surge
> >
