On Wednesday September 10, darrylb@iprimus.com.au wrote: > I am having problems with autodetection of a software raid0 array running on > Debian unstable with kernel 2.4.21. The Kernel was compiled with all > necessary support as suggested by the howto (except there no longer seems to > be a specific configuration option for autodetection). Once loaded the array > starts normally with raidstart --all. I used Debian kernel sources and built > the kernel with make-kpkg. Debian kernel sources are set up for initrd and I > have had no luck compiling non-initrd Debian kernels, so the kernel does use > initrd. > > Dmesg seems to indicate it is scanning for raid arrays but for some reason is > not finding this particular one. I might add that the partitions concerned > are set up as type fd (Linux Raid) and the array was created with > persistent-superblock in the raidtab. As I would ultimately like to boot > from the software raid I would welcome any assistance in solving this > problem. Incidentally, is it correct that Lilo supports booting only from a > software raid1 and not a software raid0 array? Is md compiled as a module or is it linked into the kernel? Because autodetec won't work with md as a module. Lilo does support booting from raid1, but no other raid level. 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
