Hi Clement, >>>Trouble is, I cannot upgrade the kernel with a simple >>>apt-get. It will be great if the std kernel can have this >>>problem fixed. >>> >>> >>> >>This does work with std kernels using initrd! You'll need to start off >>with a custom prepared initrd as explained earlier, and load such >>required modules as ide_detect and others into the initrd. Once you've >>done that you are away and running for apt upgrades. During the deb >>package kernel_image install, the install script checks to see what the >>current kernel is using and customises the initrd accordingly >(brilliant work by the package maintainers & kernel team that allows >>the automatic kernel upgrade). This is where your problem is; if you >>have the modules compiled into the kernel, they won't get picked up at >>install time by the install script and thus don't make it into the >>initrd. If the modules are loaded after boot,(e.g. like Sound modules >>etc..) they also will be missing in the initrd. > The initrd was customed already. In kernel 2.4.25, there is a module > ide-detect in kernel/drivers/ide. However, in kernel > 2.6.6, there is > no such module named ide-detect or ide_detect anywhere! > This makes sense when migrating from 2.4 to 2.6 series, the two are markedly different. I honestly can't recall if I recompiled to get the 2.6 series working. I'd suspect it may be necessary, unless you can find the initrd modules you require for the 2.6 kernel and add these to /etc/mkinitrd/modules before chrooting to the raid root and using mkinitrd. Normally you can chroot & mkinitrd, but I don't think this works quite the same way with raid, it'd be a great timesaver if you could simply chroot mkinitrd without the need to modify /etc/mkinitrd/modules. Herbert Xu the package maintainer for initrd-tools is the authority on this, I'd best not spoil his hard work with too many inaccurate rubbish statements. Perhaps someone in the linux-raid mail group can shed some light on this and as to which kernel modules are required? Cheers, Lew - 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
