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Hi David, I will try downgrade the kernel, I will let you know if works. |
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On 6/22/06, David Helstroom <david.helstroom@××××××××××××××××.au> wrote: |
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> David Helstroom wrote: |
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> > Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: |
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> >> when I boot the systems ask for real_root /dev/mapper/nv_xxxx device |
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> > I found the issue lay with Linux kernel 2.6.16 - I read a post |
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> > somewhere (which I have since lost track of) that hinted a bug/feature |
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> > of 2.6.16 meant some partitioning schemes would fail to be detected |
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> > correctly under NVRaid. The solution for me (so far) has been to run |
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> > 2.6.15, at least until 2.6.17 goes Gentoo-stable. In other words, I |
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> > have masked 2.6.16. |
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> I found the link which could be relevant and give further information to |
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> Google around: |
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> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186842 |
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> The chief problem (at least in my case) was (taken from above link) is |
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> that 2.6.16 introduces "the problem to this patch that limits dm-stripe |
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> to targets that are multiples of the chunk size". Depending on your RAID |
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> configuration, NVRAID could make use of dm-stripe, and thus you'll run |
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> into issues. |
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An application asked: |
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"Requires Windows 9x, NT4 or better", |
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so I´ve installed Linux |
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