From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: booting from MD raid using libata Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:56:37 +0900 Message-ID: <46C42D65.9030607@gmail.com> References: <46C2FA67.5060005@gac.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.191]:15811 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761040AbXHPK4v (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:56:51 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so176997rvb for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:56:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46C2FA67.5060005@gac.edu> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Ethan Sommer Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Ethan Sommer wrote: > I've been trying to diagnose a problem we've been having for a few days > and I think I've found the problem. (I'm hoping you might have the > solution.) > > I have a system which has a intel 965 MB and a couple SIL based SATA > cards one of which is hooked up to a few PMPs. > > If I try to boot the system normally after installing the libata-tj > patch, it can't find the root partition because MD can't find any raid > devices because the kernel hasn't detected the SATA partitions yet. Do you load sd before or after md? -- tejun