Rob, thanks for your suggestion In fact I've got only one CPU on my SCB2, there is no need now to use 2nd CPU now , but of course the motherboard is capable to use and designed for 2 CPUs. So I'm only interested in RH7.3 uniprocessor configuration with kernel minimum 2.4.19 (to be able to use some iptables features). If you have any experience in that area (1 CPU) and Fastrak ataraid in RH7.3 I would be glad to hear from you. Regards, Kamil -----Original Message----- From: ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ataraid-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Montgomery Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:58 AM To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fastrack 100 - kernel panic RedHat 7.3 Kamil, I just set up a similar server using the fasttrak driver instead of ataraid. I cant help any with the ataraid, but if you decide to try the fasttrak driver, keep reading. The RH7.3 default SMP kernel has a bug with the ext3 filesystem, and RH recommends upgrading the kernel. I was using the fasttrak.o driver supplied from promise, but couldnt upgrade the kernel because the fasttrak driver wont work. So the simplest thing to do was to stick with the default 7.3 kernel and just downgrade the filesystem from ext3 to ext2, thereby avoiding the kernel bug altogether. Since doing this, the server has been rock solid under heavy web and dns load. The other FastTrak option is to try and compile the recommended kernel from source and use the Fasttrak "partial" source code to recompile a new fasttrak driver yourself. Promise sent me the code last week, but I have not yet had the chance to try it yet, however next week I am going to upgrade a server with an SCB2 board, and will probably try this approach. Promise has removed the source code they sent me last week from their website, so I'm not too sure why they did that, but I do have a copy available on my server. If you want to try to compile your own fasttrak driver, check out http://www.realmsolutions.com/fasttrak.php to get the source. If you DO successfully get your SCB2 server running smoothly with RH7.3, please give me a brief rundown of what you did to get there. Since I'm going to be starting from scratch on an SCB2 next week, knowledge of any pitfalls I can avoid would be great! Good Luck, Rob --- "Kamil Staniucha - Ziaja Ltd." <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi ! > > I've got trouble with my Promise Fastrak 100 (20267) > on Intel's SCB2 > motherboard and RH 7.3 > I've tried to follow Murty's howto to establish > native Rad-1 (I have to > upgrade my kernel to at least 2.4.19 or 2.4.20) > but after kernel compilation and restart I've go > "VFS kernel panic : > unable to mount root FS on 72:01" > Could anybody help me and give an advice what else > should be set > (/ataraid/d0p1 instead of /dev/sda1) beside > lilo.conf > I've changed fstab line > LABEL=/ / ext3 default 1 1 > to > /dev/ataraid/d0p1 / ext3 default 1 > 1 > and tried with RH 7.3 built in lilo and after > upgrade to lilo 22.3.4 and > still had the same "kernel panic" > I can't go to the next step with > boot=/dev/ataraid/d0 . > > Help please. > > Thanks in advance. > > Kamil > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
