From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad Campbell Subject: Re: is automount affecting root device? huh? Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:39:06 +0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40E405EA.8040803@wasp.net.au> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: Tom Oehser Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Tom Oehser wrote: > Hi- > > I have 2 raid-5 arrays, one is md software raid running on a Highpoint > 1540, the other one is a Mylex Acceleraid-250 hardware scsi raid card. > > Lilo is working fine to boot from the Mylex. But, if I have the md on > the Highpoint autodetected, and if it doesn't have a /etc/fstab entry, > it seems to screw up the kernel's root device!?! > While I was using Highpoint 1540's with an autodetected raid 5 on these with the boot drive on hda, I had to use ide=reverse to make the machine boot from the "correct" drive. Changing the 1540's out for Promise SATA 150 TX4 controllers made this problem go away. I never really investigated it any further Regards, Brad