On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 14:39, Brad Hubbard wrote: > I've upgraded my kernel from a 2.2x to 2.4.7-10. When I try to boot the new > kernel (yes, I can still boot into the old one ;-) I get messages about being > unable to read the superblock and eventually; Did you have the RAID patches applied to your old kernel? > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 09:03 > > I assume that 09:03 is a reference to the character device with the > major device number 9 and minor number 3. > > Presumably this is /dev/md3 which is where the "/" fs lives. Yep, 09:03 looks to be md3 on my machine. Neil would probably suggest that you don't use RAID superblocks. Have you looked over the Software-RAID HOWTO? I remember fixing this a few times, but I've forgotten exactly how. Greg -- Portland, Oregon, USA. - 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