can't upgrade raid1 to 2.6.9
Anjan Dave
anjancd at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 22:01:37 UTC 2005
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade a FC1 installation to a custom 2.6.9 kernel,
and I need some help with it, please.
Have 2 SCSI (U320) drives in a Dell 1850 which i setup with 3 raid
devices, for /, for /home, and swap. Then mirrored it to sdb, and
installed the packages, and everything works ok (/etc/mdstat, and
/etc/raidtab report all devices properly).
To upgrade, i installed the kernel rpm given to me, did a mkinitrd for
the new kernel (which has driver module for the e1000 intel network
card), modified the grub.conf and rebooted. This is what i get:
...
md: md driver 0.90.0
loading raid1.ko module
raid1 personality registered as nr 3
Mounting /proc filesystem
raidautorun: RAID_AUTORUN failed: 19
raidautorun: RAID_AUTORUN failed: 19
raidautorun: RAID_AUTORUN failed: 19
creating block devices
creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
not syncing: No init found...
Since the machine doesn't have NIC driver, i couldn't capture the screen.
I did some search on the list, and one thing to verify is if the
kernel has a raid module compiled. On a separate machine with a
working 2.6.9 kernel with no software RAID, here's what's present:
# pwd
/lib/modules/2.6.9-final/kernel/drivers/md
# ls
dm-crypt.ko dm-snapshot.ko md.ko raid10.ko raid6.ko
dm-mirror.ko dm-zero.ko multipath.ko raid1.ko xor.ko
dm-mod.ko linear.ko raid0.ko raid5.ko
The first grub.conf entry looks like this (to verify correct root device):
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-final)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-final ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-final.img
...
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115/nptlsmp ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
Not sure if i need another module compiled, or if something else is wrong.
Appreciate if i can get some help!
Thanks,
Anjan
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