From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264296AbTLVBfq (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:35:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264299AbTLVBfq (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:35:46 -0500 Received: from 12-208-144-233.client.attbi.com ([12.208.144.233]:55681 "EHLO waltsathlon.localhost.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264296AbTLVBfo (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:35:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE64A6E.2020506@comcast.net> Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 17:35:42 -0800 From: Walt H User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031121 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nicklas Bondesson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Error mounting root fs on 72:01 using Promise FastTrak TX2000 (PDC20271) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicklas Bondesson wrote: > Now I'm sucessfully booting my system with the 2.4.23 kernel using only one > of the drives (hde). There is not a single line in the logs that says > anything about the Promise ATARAID driver is beeing fired up, so my guess is > that it doesn't load if no one is calling on it. When I try to boot from the > RAID it dies right after the "NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux" > message. I think it's when the ATARAID driver is about to fire up. I have no > idea at all what to do now. It must have something to do with the hard > drives since this is the only thing that has changed. Maybee I'm missing > some important kernel setting option or so? (I don't think so, but one never > know for sure). Also what have changed in the Promise / ATARAID since > 2.4.18?. > > /Nicke Not sure what else to tell you. If the pdcraid driver is compiled into the kernel, you'll get a message about it during boot, even if it can't find all the drives. I no longer use the 2.4 kernel series (or pdcraid), so I'm afraid I'm out of ideas. Maybe somebody else on the list has some other things to try. Sorry. -Walt