Dear sirs and madams, I have motherboard ABIT SA6 with HPT370 ATARAID onboard controller running RedHat Linux 7.3. When installing RedHat i've successfully used Highpoint binary (not opensource) drivers to get to work 2x IDE harddrives configured as RAID0 (stripped). After that i need now to compile and install custom kernel 2.4.19, but as far as i know its not trivial task to setup native linux ataraid. I am using the following hints and tips found at this maillist: 1. http://www.murty.net/ataraid/ - Linux ATA RAID HOWTO © 2002 Murty Rompalli; 2. https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ataraid-list/2002-April/000709.html - short guide from Adam Greenhalgh; 3. and more detailed nice manual from M.J. Prinsen - https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ataraid-list/2002-January/000548.html So i have: [mm@elf mm]$ uname -a Linux elf.XXXXX.ru 2.4.18-3 #2 Wed Jun 19 17:29:26 EDT 2002 i686 unknown [mm@elf mm]$ df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 497829 129928 342199 28% / /dev/sda1 202220 11763 180017 7% /boot /dev/sda8 1011928 16428 944096 2% /opt none 257192 0 257192 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda7 1011928 16436 944088 2% /tmp /dev/sda6 1011928 785688 174836 82% /usr /dev/sda9 34020840 2659944 29632708 9% /var [root@elf root]# lilo -V LILO version 21.4-4 [root@elf root]# cd /usr/src/linux [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=m [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=m [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_HPT=m [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_SCSI CONFIG_SCSI=m [root@elf linux]# cat .config | grep CONFIG_EXT3_FS CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m After that: make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage cp -f arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 cp -f System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.19 /usr/sbin/rdev /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 /dev/ataraid/d0p5 /sbin/mkinitrd -f --preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --preload ext3 \ --preload ataraid --with hptraid --fstab=/etc/fstab.NEW \ /boot/initrd-2.4.19.img 2.4.19 The new /etc/fstab file contains new / and swap entries (i think only them are critical to boot up): [root@elf linux]# cat /etc/fstab.NEW /dev/ataraid/d0p5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/ataraid/d0p2 swap swap defaults 0 0 [root@elf linux]# And now the new /etc/lilo.conf: [root@elf linux]# cat /etc/lilo.conf prompt boot=/dev/sda5 timeout=30 default=rh-linux map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 label=rh-linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img read-only root=/dev/sda5 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 label=linux initrd=/initrd-2.4.19.img read-only root=/dev/ataraid/d0p5 [root@elf linux]# I guess that if i have /dev/sda5 as root fs so i must to change it to /dev/ataraid/d0p5. Am i right? Ok, than reboot and hangup at "Now booting the kernel....": capslock and scrolllock leds are flashing and nothing more happens. Whats wrong? Thanks in any advance. -- ^D, Mike / mm(at)penza.net.ru
