ATARAID and KERNEL-2.6.9

ATARAID and KERNEL-2.6.9

[Sasa Ostrouska]

Dear Sirs,

        I have a little problem or maybe big one. I try to 
put to work the kernel-2.6.9 on my machine. I have a slackware
current install and the following hardware.

AMD Athlon 
512MB RAM
HPT 370 RAID controller 
and 2 HDD in RAID1

So when I start the kernel-ataraid-2.4.27 everything works OK.
When I start the installed kernel-2.6.9 I get the following error
message:

VFS: Cannot openroot device "7203" or unknown-block(114,3)
Please append a correct "root=" option 
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(114,3)

On my lilo.conf is root=/dev/ataraid/d0p3 
as this is the / partition. 

I tried to put the root=/dev/hde at the lilo prompt but no 
success. 
I tried many many forums but nobody was able to answer me. So 
my last sollution is you and I will very very apreciate it if 
you can give me some hints how to do it. I append you also a
dmesg from the 2.4.27 kernel. 

Many thanks in advance for your help !!!

Best Regards
Sasa Ostrouska

RE: ATARAID and KERNEL-2.6.9

[Piszcz, Justin Michael]

The boot device is in a RAID-based configuration?

If this is the case, I believe you need to setup an initrd img and setup
LILO accordingly.


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Sasa Ostrouska
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:19 AM
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ATARAID and KERNEL-2.6.9

Dear Sirs,

        I have a little problem or maybe big one. I try to 
put to work the kernel-2.6.9 on my machine. I have a slackware
current install and the following hardware.

AMD Athlon 
512MB RAM
HPT 370 RAID controller 
and 2 HDD in RAID1

So when I start the kernel-ataraid-2.4.27 everything works OK.
When I start the installed kernel-2.6.9 I get the following error
message:

VFS: Cannot openroot device "7203" or unknown-block(114,3)
Please append a correct "root=" option 
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(114,3)

On my lilo.conf is root=/dev/ataraid/d0p3 
as this is the / partition. 

I tried to put the root=/dev/hde at the lilo prompt but no 
success. 
I tried many many forums but nobody was able to answer me. So 
my last sollution is you and I will very very apreciate it if 
you can give me some hints how to do it. I append you also a
dmesg from the 2.4.27 kernel. 

Many thanks in advance for your help !!!

Best Regards
Sasa Ostrouska





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Re: ATARAID and KERNEL-2.6.9

[Jeff Garzik]

Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> 
>         I have a little problem or maybe big one. I try to 
> put to work the kernel-2.6.9 on my machine. I have a slackware
> current install and the following hardware.

use dmraid for 2.6.x.

	Jeff

Re: ATARAID and KERNEL-2.6.9

[Sasa Ostrouska]

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 14:30 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> >         I have a little problem or maybe big one. I try to 
> > put to work the kernel-2.6.9 on my machine. I have a slackware
> > current install and the following hardware.
> 
> use dmraid for 2.6.x.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
> 
Dear Jeff, 

	Many thanks for your reply. I would like to ask you if 
you have some experience with this ? This means if you can point me to a
good how to or some documentation on the net, or maybe 
describe how to do the steps. This just because I tried to instal the
lilo but it gave me an error when I did /sbin/lilo and the root option
was set to /dev/ataraid/d0. I tried once to 
boot the machine with the options like noinitrd root=/dev/hde and it
booted up but then complained that the partitiona are mounted rw and to
give the root password for correcting the errors. After that I rebooted
to give the ro option and it never had booted again. 

Many many thanks for your help.

Best Regards
Sasa Ostrouska