On Tuesday February 19, bamundson@bbn.com wrote: > I am having a problem with the 2.4.17 kernel and my RAID 5. After compiling > the kernel with raid support, I get the following error which prevent the > machine from booting. > > "EXT3 -fs unable to read superblock > isofs_read_super: bread failed: dev=09:00, iso_blk_num=16, block=32 > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 09:00" It sounds like md0 just isn't getting configured at boot. You can configure it either with the kernel parameters: md=0,/dev/hda1,/dev/hdc1 or whichever partitions comprise your RAID, or by setting the partition type to "Linux Raid Autodetect". NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html