From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: sommere <sommere@gustavus.edu>
Cc: Ethan Sommer <sommere@gac.edu>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: booting from MD raid using libata
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:04:46 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C43D5E.8000403@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C43B4A.4000308@gustavus.edu>
sommere wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>>
> How would I affect that?
>
> I've since tried installing linux without using raid for the system
> disks, and it still doesn't detect the partitions for the sata drives
> before trying to mount the root partition when using the libata-tj patch
> against 2.6.22.1
Are libata, sd and md modules? If you don't know what's going on, just
build all needed drivers into the kernel.
--
tejun
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-16 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-15 13:06 booting from MD raid using libata Ethan Sommer
2007-08-16 10:56 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-16 11:55 ` sommere
2007-08-16 12:04 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
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