On Friday June 11, john.lange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Is there some reason why a RAID 1 set built under 2.6.5 would not work > under 2.4.22? No, unless you are partitioning the array. > > I build a machine (Slackware) with two RAID 1 mirrored drives under a > 2.6.5 kernel. > > I later discovered that I needed to drop back to a 2.4.22 kernel in > order to do some clustering under openMosix and TKCluster so I > downloaded the recommended TKCluster 2.4.22 kernel. This kernel is a > standard kernel with patches for libata and openMosix. > > I rebuilt the kernel including support for RAID and serial ATA (ICH5). > > When I boot the 2.4.22 kernel it goes along nicely until it tries to > mount the root partition. It then throws up a "modprobe" error. > Something about char-major 9 I think? (I'm sorry but I am not near the > console at the moment). Precise message are always more helpful. If it was actually "block-major 9", then maybe your kernel is compiled without support for md, as block-major 9 corresponds to the md driver. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
