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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 05:29 am, David Wuertele wrote: |
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> Thanks to Chris Smart, I now have a bootable kernel! |
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> The New Behavior: |
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> The kernel gets as far as mounting /dev/hda1 on /newroot, and it |
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> appears to raidstart /dev/md0, but /dev/md0 doesn't have a |
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> superblock. When I looked around, I discovered that all the drives |
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> on my PCI IDE controller are not discovered. |
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> Since the LiveCD uses the siimage module, I tried compiling with |
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> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=y. But after doing this, the problem is that |
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> my hda is not discovered properly. |
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> My guess was that the PCI IDE controller was somehow messing up the |
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> device order. Since the LiveCD boot uses siimage as a module, I |
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> tried compiling the kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIIMAGE=m. |
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> But now the kernel doesn't discover the PCI IDE controller's drives. |
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> The module isn't getting loaded. When I typed "modprobe siimage; |
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> raidstart /dev/md0; mount /dev/md0 /mnt/md0" everything worked fine. |
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Hey again, |
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this is what I was talking about - you needed to have the driver for your pci |
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ide controller statically in your kernel too. |
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then all your devices should be detected (/dev/hde/f/g/h etc..) which means |
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then linux raid can check the IDs on your raid partitions and auto mount them |
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for you. |
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Out of interest, what mountpoint is /dev/md0? /home? |
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> The new problem: |
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> I generate initrd using "genkernel initrd". The resulting initrd |
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> doesn't seem to be loading the siimage module during boot. |
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> When I compile the siimage driver in permanently (not as a module), |
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> the drive order gets messed up (that's just a HYPOTHESIS). |
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What did you do to compile your kernel? |
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Did you use genkernel --menuconfig all? |
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Can you post your bootloader config? |
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> The new question: |
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> How can I get siimage to load early enough for raid to properly |
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> start, but late enough that it doesn't mess up the drive order? |
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Run make menuconfig. |
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Under Device Drivers --->ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> there is an option |
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in the kernel: |
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[*] Boot off-board chipsets first support |
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make that static, and it will boot your via controller first (ie make |
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it /dev/hda) |
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> Thanks, |
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> Dave |
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NPS! |
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Chris |
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