Hi, I have troubles running RAID on my PC under Linux. The short version of it is that I some time ago bought an Asus A7V333 (VIA-KT333-based) motherboard which featured a Promise PDC20276 RAID controller. (It seems to be software RAID only, but anyway.) I have happily been running the machine with RAID disabled as a dual-boot between Suse 8.2 and Win XP Pro. Recently I bought a pair of Seagate 160 Mb drives with the purpose of having a shared drive between Windows and Linux, but Linux will not boot with the RAID controller enabled; it panics during booting, unable to mount the system drive. Two questions: * How do I make Linux boot with the RAID controller enabled? * Is it possible to share it between Linux and Windows? (ataraid seems to have some pdc subsystem, but I got no idea what that means.) Things that might be relevant: * The BIOS seems to play tricks (with int13?) to make it possible to boot from the array, but I got no desire to do so (unless neccessary). * Suse is configured to boot using lilo and an initrd containing the reiserfs module needed for the root partition. * Without reconfiguring lilo, the booting stops with the message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02" * Booting the Suse CD in rescue mode, I can find the system drive under /dev/hda2. * Trying to boot from a floppy with grub installed, I get the same error as for lilo with root (hd0,1) # i e boot from first drive, second partition kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/boot/hda2 # i e boot using vmlinuz, telling it root is /dev/hda2 initrd /boot/initrd # i e use this initrd boot * Changing the kernel line above to kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/boot/hde2 # i e boot using vmlinuz, telling it root is /dev/hde2 gets me much further, in fact it seems like even modules are loaded, but it ends with a suggestion that I should run fsck on /dev/hda2. This happens even if I change /etc/fstab to point root to /dev/hde2 instead of /dev/hda2. (Where does the /dev/hda2 come from then?) "mount" tells me /dev/hda2 is mounted in rw mode. (How can it mount /dev/hda2 when I have to boot it as /dev/hde2?) * Kernel version is 2.4.20 from Suse (2.4.20-4GB) It seems to me that there is some inconsistencies in naming (/dev/hda2 vs /dev/hde2)? Suggestions, anyone? Should I send this to linux-ide? Regards Mårten Berggren - 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
