On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Steve Cousins <steve.cousins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Joe Landman wrote: >> >> Hi folks: >> >> We have been trying to build an operational initrd for a root drive >> on software RAID1. >> >> Basic specs: 2.6.23.14 kernel (though same issues with 2.6.27.2 >> kernel), on Centos 5.2, pair of SATA drives using libata and other >> drivers, x86_64 architecture. >> >> Using mkinitrd --with=raid1 --with=libata --with=sd_mod ... >> >> I am getting a kernel panic on switchroot, it can't find the root >> file system. > > Hi Joe, > > What does the "root=" kernel parameter look like in your grub.conf (are you > using grub?)? Mine looks like root=/dev/md2. My md0 is the boot partition Hi Steve: root=/dev/md2 and the boot device is (hd0,0). Joe -- 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