Unable to read superblock

[Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>]

I'm confused, I've done this hundreds of times, but for some reason it
doesn't work now, I must be missing something, can someone poke me in
the eye with it?

I've currently got 2.2.20 with raid-1 devices booting fine:

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md5                139945     28617    104103  22% /
/dev/md0                  7683      4253      3034  58% /boot
/dev/hda5                69904        15     66280   0% /tmp
/dev/md4               1430864    933128    425048  69% /usr
/dev/md3               1438768    392848    972832  29% /var
/dev/md2              35990024   3980340  30181492  12% /var/spool
/dev/md1                233225    160199     60985  72% /home

cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5] [translucent] 
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 hdc2[0] hda2[1] 7936 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md5 : active raid1 hdc3[0] hda3[1] 144512 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md6 : active raid1 hdc5[0] hda5[1] 72192 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md4 : active raid1 hdc6[0] hda6[1] 1453760 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md3 : active raid1 hdc7[0] hda7[1] 1461760 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 hdc9[0] hda9[1] 36563840 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 hdc10[0] hda10[1] 240832 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>

I had lilo set for:

boot=/dev/md0
root=/dev/md5
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.20RAID
        label=RAID
        read-only
        alias=4
		
When I installed 2.4.18, all of a sudden I can't boot, EXT2-fs: unable
to read superblock. Yes, I selected all the RAID options on kernel
compile.

What the heck?

Ok, so I think it is a lilo problem, I wanted to toss lilo and put
grub on anyway:

My grub is set for:
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.2.20RAID root=/dev/md5

If I have grub set to:

kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/md5

again with the unable to read superblock stuff....

if I have it set to:
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.18 root=/dev/hda3

request module [block major 3]: root fs not mounted
cannot open root device hda3
please append correct root= boot option

AGGGH?!

Thanks,
Micah