RE: [Bug 471] New: Root on software raid don't boot on new 2.5 ke rnel since after 2.5.45

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 10:07:20 EST


Please send emails re bugs back to the submitter, which in this
case was tlb@rapanden.dk (Troels Liebe Bentsen)

--On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 05:50:28 -0800 "Cress, Andrew R" <andrew.r.cress@intel.com> wrote:

> Martin,
>
> You didn't list your kernel configuration.
> Make sure you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y (not =m) for root mirroring.
> This is easy to forget, since the default is =m.
>
> The others should be able to be modules, however you know that
> the module interface is radically changed in 2.5.45 and beyond,
> so trying it with the other scsi & raid modules compiled in would
> be a good test.
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helge Hafting [mailto:helgehaf@aitel.hist.no]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:15 AM
> To: Martin J. Bligh
> Cc: linux-kernel
> Subject: Re: [Bug 471] New: Root on software raid don't boot on new 2.5
> kernel since after 2.5.45
>
>
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471
>>
>> Summary: Root on software raid don't boot on new 2.5 kernel
> since
>> after 2.5.45
>
> Root on raid-1 works fine for me, with and without devfs. My kernel has
> no module support, everything is compiled in. I don't use initrd.
> I have used root-raid with every 2.5 kernel except for a few that had
> raid bugs. (Affecting all raid, the root weren't special.)
>
> Until recently the root raid always did an unclean shutdown, but this didn't
> cause other trouble than a bootup resync.
>
>
>

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