From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262063AbTJSTMc (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:12:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262064AbTJSTMc (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:12:32 -0400 Received: from mail.skjellin.no ([80.239.42.67]:44708 "HELO mail.skjellin.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262063AbTJSTMb (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:12:31 -0400 Subject: Re: Mounting /dev/md0 as root in 2.6.0-test7 From: Andre Tomt To: John Mock Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Message-Id: <1066590757.498.3.camel@slurv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:12:37 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 20:53, John Mock wrote: > The basic problem here is that the kernel has no idea what disks comprise > your RAID when you just say "root=/dev/md0", e.g., it has no idea where to > start. The kernel knows it if the array is set up with persistent superblocks, the partition type of the relevant partitions has id 0xfd (raid auto-detect), and the md-raid code is compiled into the kernel image. -- Mvh, André Tomt andre@tomt.net