Once upon a time, Joseph wrote : > There is a howto out there that tells more or less how to do that. Look > at tldp.org and search for ATA-RAID or visit > http://www.murty.net/ataraid/ for the latest version of the howto. I > don't recommend trying to build your own kernel unless you're onsite > with the servers. Instead, there's a mkinitrd command you can run to > preload ataraid and the pdc modules which ship with RH kernel rpms. > It's something like "mkinitrd --preload ataraid --preload pdcraid". > See > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ataraid-list/2002-September/001147.html > > for where this is based from. Also make sure that the fasttrak modules > are removed from your modules.dep file (just edit the text file) before > you run the mkinitrd. Then change /etc/fstab and lilo/grub as it tells > you to in the howto at murty's. That's more or less what I did I guess :-) My server is currently rebooting... by the end of this email I should know if it's able to come back online with the new kernel or if I'll need to call someone to go have a look at the console! :-/ What I did is : - Install the new kernel, apt-get install kernel#2.4.18-18.7.xsmp (it complained about not finding the FastTrak module when automatically creating the new initrd, obviously) - Make an initrd for the new kernel as follows : mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --with=ataraid --with=pdcraid \ /boot/initrd-2.4.18-18.7.xsmp.img 2.4.18-18.7.xsmp - Edit grub.conf to add the initrd line and change the root=/dev/sda1 with root=/dev/ataraid/d0p1 and set the new kernel as the default As the /etc/fstab file references all partitions from their LABEL, I didn't touch it (actually the swap still is, but shouldn't prevent the server from booting). YESSSSSSSSSS!!!! My server just came back online! ;-) That was a risky one, but it worked! Now I just need to modify the swap entry in my /etc/fstab and I'm done. Pheeeeew, that was risky, I love that :-) Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10acpi Load : 0.23 0.20 0.09
