Do you have ext3 support built in the kernel ? Looks like you are using initrd, is your Linux OS in the Promise FastTrak disks ? On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Tiit Kaeeli wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Intel SE7500CW2 motherboard with on-board Promise PDC20267 > FastTrak 100 IDE Raid controller and trying to get 2.4.21-pre6 kernel up > and running with it. System is RedHat 7.3. When I boot my new kernel, I > get following errors after > Mounting root filesystem in read-write mode [OK] > and some more [OK]- s: > > Finding module dependencies: execvp: Input/output error > EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot > read > inode bitmap - block_group=<number> > > Following many more errors like that with different block_group numbers > (Sorry, theese are only notes on paper) > > I also tried RedHat kernel 2.4.20-8 and got the same errors. Kernel > configuration file is kernel-2.4.20-i686-smp.config from RedHat 2.4.20-8 > source tree, only made modifications noted in Murty Rompalli-s Linux ATA > RAID HOWTO. With older kernels I got lost IRQ errors, but according to > /proc/pci PDC20267 is not sharing its IRQ with any other device. I found > postings saying that there is a bug in kernels prior 2.4.21 causing this > bahavior, so I decided to try 2.4.21 > > my /etc/lilo.conf: > > prompt > timeout=500 > default=2.4.18-3smp > boot=/dev/sda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > message=/boot/message > lba32 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3smp > label=2.4.18-3smp > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3smp.img > read-only > root=/dev/sda2 > append="hda=ide-scsi" > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-pre6 > label=2.4.21-pre6 > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-pre6.img > read-only > root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2 > append="hda=ide-scsi" > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8custom > label=2.4.20-8custom > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8custom.img > read-only > root=/dev/ataraid/d0p2 > append="hda=ide-scsi" > > Do I have to use append line? ATA RAID HOWTO talks about append line only > when adding new non-os disks? > > Any ideas? > > > > > -- > > Tiit Kaeeli > tiit_k@xxxxx > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list >
