* David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Thursday 06 December 2001 00:40, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > * Graham Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > ... > > > > > Eventually VFS Kernel Panic. Cant mount root fs. There's also a > > > message about block-major-8. > > > > It's trying to load the driver from /lib/modules on root fs. Oops. > > > > You have two options: > > 1. build a custom kernel with the driver compiled in. > > 2. put root fs on a separate disk. > > I'm having the same sort of problem with a Mylex card. It uses the dac960 > module. > > Would putting / on an IDE drive sort this out? I plan to use the SCSI array > for /var and things of that nature.
If you compile IDE driver as module, you'll have the same problem with / on IDE drive. If you compile Mylex driver into the kernel, it should work with / on the RAID. That's the theory, IRL there may be some gotchas with Mylex/whatever drivers I'm not aware of. Dima
