On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:01:55PM +1000, Chris Portman wrote:
> Hi everyone... im trying to install gentoo on a software raid0 array
> across 2 sata disks. the boot partion is just a normal partition
> though on /dev/sda1.
>
> Ive read all the howtos i can find... they all go through the same steps
> and the install procedure runs through fine however when i get to the
> end and reboot... it can mount the root partition as /dev/md0 doesnt
> exist basically.
I don't know what gentoo does but on RedHat there is a magic ramdisc
file called /boot/initrd that loads with the kernel and then goes about
constructing the /dev/md0 device. It uses some tricky scripting and
goes and looks at the partition names and stuff like that. Presuming
gentoo works the same way then checking the initrd files is probably
a place to start. Could be that you have an initrd that is suitable
for SCSI but not for SATA (the ramdisc actually contains kernel modules
and installs just the ones that are needed for your system, evil huh).
- Tel ( http://bespoke.homelinux.net/ )
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