On 3 Jul 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote: > I helped myself to the config file that Robert P. J. Day posted and > recompiling with this (slightly modified for my hardware) resulted in a > kernel that would start to boot. But it issued a panic message because > it couldn't mount the raid array member md1. There are a couple of > messages about RAID failing. I'm wondering if I need an updated > raidtools package? > > I then downloaded the 2.5.74 kernel to a different machine, an (older) > Dell XPS T550. I modified Mr. Day's config file to better suit my > particular hardware. The 2.5.74 kernel boots on this, there are some > failures, but it boots! I'm still working with it to change the .config > options to get things like Tulip network card drivers. man, i sure wasn't man enough to try to move to a 2.5 kernel and support RAID at the same time. i suggest checking out the linux-kernel mailing list archives, which live with a zillion other list archives at http://marc.10east.com. you'll find the linux kernel list archive under the "Linux" subheading, and you can search on "RAID" and see what comes up. the trick seems to be to not just run a "make oldconfig" using your current 2.4 .config file. there are so many new options that it's strongly recommended to walk through a full config at least once to see what's there. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
