Is there any way you can get strace onto your initrd image? This was really helpful for me when I didn't get any useful output from the tools. Also, does any "dm-X" nodes appear under /sys/block when dmraid is run? /Erik On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 22:04, Mark Wormgoor wrote: > Hi, > > After spending a lot of the weekend with Anaconda, I managed to install > Fedora devel (Rawhide) on my machine with a SiI3112 SATA RAID-0 set > (already running FC-1 with medley.o). Patch is available upon request. > > My next step is to get it to boot without too much hacking to the > current mkinitrd script. But... I'm not having a lot of success. What > the script does is: > - run nash > - mount proc > - mount sysfs > - start udev > > Then, I let it run dmraid -ay. I know dmraid works, because I used it > in Anaconda to install. But, dmraid just exits with an error with no > real error message (just return code = 1). And, the devices are not > there under /dev/mapper. I tried the static binary from the static rc4 > rpm and I tried a self compiled binary with enable-mini. It doesn't > make any difference. > > I even copied a static busybox into the initrd to troubleshoot, but > nothing I do helps. What is going on? > Erik, how did you get it to work? > > BTW, next step is lilo; I am still using lilo under FC1, since that > works, but after getting initrd to work, I will try Erik's patch next. > > Kind regards, > > Mark
