hi ya john
i think you have the classic problem of the chicken and the egg
- you cant read the disk till you have linux running
- you cant get linux working till you can read the disk
"linux --> the kernel"
- you need to create your own custom initrd.gz file
with your kernel you know boots the system
- you say your other kernel works ???
# dd if=/boot/other_kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
# boot that floppy... if it works... that is the kernel
you should put into the initrd.gz file
# or simpler, to just boot off the floppy
- many ways to make an initrd.gz ..
- mkintrd
- uncompress a working boot floppy into "/dev/loop" file
and compress it into initrd.gz
- you'd need /dev/ram, /dev/loop, cramfs, mimix and few
other whacky stuff to get the new initrd.gz file...
( fun and annoying stuff ...
- you might also be running into a problem of / cannot be raid5
partitions under some cases ( use raid1 mirroring instead for / )
/ ==> /bin /lib /sbin /dev .. /etc...
c ya
alvin
On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, John wrote:
> Thanks Alvin, but I still havent got it to work.
>
> I've tried using initrd and I still have a problem.
>
> What is happening is that the kernel is trying to mount the root device
> (/dev/rd/c0d0p1) before it's loaded the DAC960 driver.
>
> Compiling the driver into the kernel doesnt help.
>
> I've set DAC960 and reiserfs as modules to load before mounting the root
> fs in /etc/mkinitrd/modules (I think it was there - different machine to
> where I'm sitting).
>
> I've RTFMd, rebuilt, reloaded and reconfigured. I've threatened the
> machine with defenestration. My workmates are avoiding me as I get more
> and more annoyed.
>
> As much as it pains me I think I need a 'Jack and Jill meet the
> keyboard' style walkthrough on building a smp initrd kernel to boot with
> a root fs on RAID5 hardware.
>
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