From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Glynn Clements Subject: Re: Compiling 2.6 kernel questions Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:27:07 +0000 Message-ID: <19216.28251.587983.714449@cerise.gclements.plus.com> References: <55e03a0a0911241518t622a90a4y1ed374eee8c4503d@mail.gmail.com> <19212.44400.48613.143756@cerise.gclements.plus.com> <55e03a0a0911242100t71a7dd3fxa8ccb3c7be2a3749@mail.gmail.com> <19212.62136.877446.609535@cerise.gclements.plus.com> <55e03a0a0911251024xdb48130h7822f6da1f5ad6fd@mail.gmail.com> <19213.46313.504805.443593@cerise.gclements.plus.com> <55e03a0a0911251532s5894e406jc7f4ffd6c8d34b73@mail.gmail.com> <19214.1429.491143.904449@cerise.gclements.plus.com> <55e03a0a0911261718i5f02f8d6ke40f2143e5afc918@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <55e03a0a0911261718i5f02f8d6ke40f2143e5afc918@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Alex Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Alex wrote: > > The error message: > > > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0VFS: Can't mount root unknown-block(9,1) > > > > indicates that the kernel is trying to mount /dev/md1 directly (dev= ice > > 9:1 is /dev/md1), which won't work if the md driver is a module (ev= en > > if the md driver is built in, this won't work if the array needs > > user-space configuration before it can be mounted). >=20 > I remember using lilo in the past to boot from RAID partitions, no? > Isn't that why lilo writes the bootsector of both disks in a mirror? You can do it, but without initrd, it requires that the kernel can auto-configure the RAID array, and that the md driver is built-in. --=20 Glynn Clements -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html