Are you using initrd while booting with 2.4.7-10 ? Are you using a newer initrd while booting with 2.4.18 ? If not, you should have appropriate features compiled into the kernel. Can you boot if set to mirror? Good luck Murty On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Martin Cerveny wrote: > Hi. I've a problem with onboard pdc20265 (my board is A7V133 from Asus) > trying to boot from array. When using RedHat 7.2 original kernel source > (2.4.7-10) it boots up fine - ataraid is version 0.02. When using any newer > kernel (ataraid 0.03beta), even redhat one, it fails. I've tried 2.4.10, > 2.4.17 and 2.4.18 and some others. 2.5 does not compile for me. I'm not > sure its ataraid code problem, because overwriting ataraid and pdcraid with > older ones does not help. Any suggestions? > > Here is a snip from booting: > > PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0 > PDC20265: chipset revision 2 > ide: found promise 20265 in RAID mode. > PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary MASTER Mode Secondary MASTER Mode. > ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio > ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio > hde: IC35L020AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive > hdg: IC35L020AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive > ide2 at 0x9800-0x9807,0x9402 on irq 10 > ide3 at 0x9000-0x9007,0x8802 on irq 10 > blk: queue c02a245c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > hde: 40188960 sectors (20577MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=39870/16/63, UDMA(100) > blk: queue c02a27a8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > hde: 40188960 sectors (20577MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=39870/16/63, UDMA(100) > Partition check: > hde: [PTBL] [2501/255/63] hde1 hde2 hde3 > hdg: unknown partition table > ataraid/d0: ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 ataraid/d0p3 > Drive 0 is 19623Mb (33 / 0) > Drive 1 is 19623Mb (34 / 0) > Raid0 array consists of 2 drives. > Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.03beta > VFS: Cannot open root device "ataraid/d0p3" or 00:0a > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:0a > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
