* RAID1 help
@ 2003-06-08 18:56 Jason Gordon
2003-06-08 21:10 ` Ross Vandegrift
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jason Gordon @ 2003-06-08 18:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-raid
I have been trying to setup software RAID 1 on a new debian based
system for the last day and I cant seem to get it right. I have a
Promise Ultra ATA 66 PCI card with 2 IDE channels on it. I have two
identical 27.3 GB HDs hooked to this card, each on its own channel.
I followed the instructions on
http://docman.sourceforge.net/home_html/md-raid1.html exactly but I
also looked at various HOW-Tos.
My layout is as follows.
/dev/hde1 ~26 GB /
/dev/hde2 ~700 MB swap
/dev/hdg has the same layout.
When I installed, /dev/hdg* was the failed disk, so I installed onto
/dev/hde1.
With both disks detatched, the system boots properly. With /dev/hde
only attached, the system boots properly and reports it is in degraded
mode. However, with /dev/hdg attached, the system kernel panics. Lilo
comes up, loads, grabs the RAM disk image (from initrd) and loads that
into memory and starts to boot. But then it eventually somewhere in
the boot process it kernel panics. Here are some of the messages:
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=09:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev2/root, or too
many mounted file systems
...
cramfs: wrong magic
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: no such file or directory
pivot_root: No such file or directory
/sbin/init: cannot open dev/console: no such file
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
The only thing I can think to do right now is to try again with a
slightly different layout. Some articles had mentioned something about
a small /boot partition.
/dev/hde1 ~100 MB /boot
/dev/hde2 ~26 GB /
/dev/hde3 ~700 MB swap
Any help, ideas suggestions, im getting pretty frustrated here.
Jason
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* Re: RAID1 help
2003-06-08 18:56 RAID1 help Jason Gordon
@ 2003-06-08 21:10 ` Ross Vandegrift
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From: Ross Vandegrift @ 2003-06-08 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Gordon; +Cc: linux-raid
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 02:56:15PM -0400, Jason Gordon wrote:
> I have been trying to setup software RAID 1 on a new debian based
> system for the last day and I cant seem to get it right.
<snip>
It sounds like you're trying to use the default Debian kernels. This is
very difficult. I've tried pretty seriously three times and failed.
Google doesn't find anyone who ever succeeded. A recent inquiry to
linux-raid and debian-user mailing lists yielded zero responses.
> Any help, ideas suggestions, im getting pretty frustrated here.
Give up on the Debian kernels and build your own that includes the RAID1
drivers as modules.
(OTOH, if you do stick it out with the Debian kernels and figure
something out, please report back)
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