On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Murty Rompalli wrote: > Do you have ext3 support built in the kernel ? Looks like you are using > initrd, is your Linux OS in the Promise FastTrak disks ? Yes, my Linux resides on FastTrak. As mutch as I know, EXT3 support is included. (But I am not an experienced kernel configurator). So I included my .config file here, so You can verify this or any other problems. > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > Tiit Kaeeli tiit_k@xxxxx