Hmm, well if you want to know the truth, I didn't realize that 2.5.73-bk8 (or any 2.5.x kernel) has trouble with RAID. How's that for kernel ignorance? But the experience has wised me up. I've moved all my 2.5 experiments to a different machine that doesn't use RAID. Maybe I'll look for a spare hard disk to see if I can run RAID on it... As to the mailing list -- that list has a really nasty black background that doesn't render well in my Mozilla. The lines are almost unreadable. I'll give it a little more looking over though. Bob On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 05:20, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 -- Need help with computer hardware or software? I can take care of it in your home at very reasonable cost. Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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