On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 11:45:08PM -0500, Vernon Fort wrote: > System Specs: > Soyo K7V Dragon VIA KT266 > ide-0 = ata/66 maxtor > ide-1 = cdrom > ide-3 = IBM Deskstar 60GB > ide-4 = IBM Deskstar 60GB > > Redhat 7.1 (with latest patches) > Kernel 2.4.10 with patch-to-2.4.10 > configured kernel with promise settings as suggested > > Switched the jumper to enable RAID1 - configure/build the raid - enable the > raid in the bios > > I am NOT booting of the RAID1 device - booting off ide-0 > > When I enable the bios Promise raid setting, I get a kernel panic > > NET4: Unix Domain Sockets.... > ds: no socket drivers loaded > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > VFS: mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly > Warning: unable to open inital console > Kernel Panic: no init found.... > > The really odd thing is the root filesystem is ext2, not reiserfs - the > drives for the raid ARE reiserfs. This makes me think the system is > attempting to boot of the raid1. If I just disable the bios setting, the > system boots fine. Any ideas or suggestions. > > FYI - this will be a production system - should I use software raid1 until > the promise raid1 drivers mature? The drivers are still experimental; software raid1 is much more mature... for production servers I would recommend md raid1. (fasttrak is also software raid, just done slightly different)
