mkinitrd and RAID6 on FC5

mkinitrd and RAID6 on FC5

[Guy Watkins]

For many months now my FC5 can't do mkinitrd automatically when I upgrade
the kernel.  Well it does make the initrd, but will not boot.

It seems the modules raid4, raid5 and raid6 have been combined into 1 module
raid456.

My "/" filesystem is RAID6.  I am guessing this is the problem.  If so, I
guess anyone using RAID4, 5 or 6 would have this problem.

I found out how to manually create the initrd:
mkinitrd -v -f --with=raid456 /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.2307.fc5smp.img
2.6.20-1.2307.fc5smp

There is a bugzilla number/url:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211030

That bugzilla was opened over six months ago.

Is this ever going to be fixed?

Is this a REDHAT only problem/bug?  If so, since bugzilla.redhat.com gets
ignored, where do I complain?

Sorry to sound rude.  md has been good to me for years now, but this issue
has caused me some headaches that I don't need!

Thanks,
Guy

Re: mkinitrd and RAID6 on FC5

[H. Peter Anvin]

Guy Watkins wrote:
> Is this a REDHAT only problem/bug?  If so, since bugzilla.redhat.com gets
> ignored, where do I complain?

Yes, this is Redhat only, and as far as I know, it was fixed a long time 
ago.  I suspect you need to make sure you upgrade your entire system, 
especially mkinitrd, not just the kernel.

	-hpa

RE: mkinitrd and RAID6 on FC5

[Guy Watkins]

} -----Original Message-----
} From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-raid-
} owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
} Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 1:49 PM
} To: Guy Watkins
} Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
} Subject: Re: mkinitrd and RAID6 on FC5
} 
} Guy Watkins wrote:
} > Is this a REDHAT only problem/bug?  If so, since bugzilla.redhat.com
} gets
} > ignored, where do I complain?
} 
} Yes, this is Redhat only, and as far as I know, it was fixed a long time
} ago.  I suspect you need to make sure you upgrade your entire system,
} especially mkinitrd, not just the kernel.
} 
} 	-hpa

I tried to update/upgrade and no updates are available for mkinitrd.  Do you
know what version has the fix?  The bugzilla was never closed, so it seems
it has not been fixed.

My version:
mkinitrd.i386                            5.0.32-2               installed

Thanks,
Guy

Re: mkinitrd and RAID6 on FC5

[H. Peter Anvin]

Guy Watkins wrote:
> 
> I tried to update/upgrade and no updates are available for mkinitrd.  Do you
> know what version has the fix?  The bugzilla was never closed, so it seems
> it has not been fixed.
> 
> My version:
> mkinitrd.i386                            5.0.32-2               installed
> 

I guess Red Hat decided not to fix this in FC5.  It does work in FC6; 
for FC5 I guess you're stuck passing --with=raid456 to mkinitrd :-/

	-hpa