Well, list: Here I am. I've decided to make my Raid devices work with a 2.6 kernel and I'm going to do it!! (or dead in the attempt). XD I've downloaded: -A 2.6.7 kernel source (I've heard many bad things about the 2.6.8.1 and 2.6.9). -The stable device mapper version -The latest dmraid (1.0.4 version) -Many kernel patches for the kernel. The file is named 2.6.9. Are these patchs exclusives for the 2.6.9 kernels?. Well... and now... what?. I mean. I've got a hardware-raid array (mode 0) running with a 2.4.25. My disks are stripped and y see them as an only disk in /dev/ataraid/d0p... (p from partition) as many of you would know. Mi controller is a Promise On-Board PDC20265 device. So my question basically is: "What do I have to do now???". I suposse I'll have to path the sources of the kernel 2.6.7, install dev mapper and dmraid, but: -1) For my PDC20265 controller to be detected by dmraid, do I have to boot with the patched 2.6. kernel?. I don't think so, because if I boot from a 2.6, i get a Kernel Panic, so I can't boot from a 2.6 withouth having the dmraid set up. -2) If I change my arrays partition, apply dmraid, devmapper and all so to my /dev/ataraid devices, will I lose data?. I mean, do I have to make security backups of everything or is it changed "automatically"? -3) Where could I download the lilo path from?. -4) Does anybody know a howto apply the dmraid and all so? -5) After aplying the dmraid, devmapper... how will be my disks called?. Nowadays, as I said, they are /dev/ataraid/d0p1, d0p2...). And after this?. -6) In which order do I have to install all these things I downloaded?. I suposse first will be pathing and compiling the kernel sources, but after that?. The dev mapper before the dmraid, the dmraid before the dev mapper... Thank you, and sorry for my insistence, but I'm not sure at all about what do I have to do. -- Diplomacia es el arte de decir "bonito perrito"... hasta que puedas encontrar una piedra. Calentico 2.4.25 GNU/Linux
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