Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why ity has to be so frustrating !!!

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

Hi I use a A8N-E, with nvidia raid controler 2 segate SATA disks
working at RAID-0 ( sttriping ), I had installed gentoo base system
and grub successfully, but at boot time with kernel 2.6.16 it cannot
find device on /dev/mapper and with kernel 2.6.15-r1 it has a kernel
panic saiyng it can´t find /linuxrc file and /bin/bash file.

any more information needed ? just asks


On 6/26/06, Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it> wrote:
> On Monday 26 June 2006 11:58, James Buckley wrote:
> > He probably want's to use fakeraid because he wants to have a
> > dual-boot Windows-Linux, both using raid. I also have had the same
> > problem with 2.6.16+ dmraid, and the only solution I found was to use
> > kernel 2.6.15-r9 (just < 2.6.16). Only 2.6.15 gives me other
> > problems...
>
> That's not correct.
>
> I have a 4 disks software raid (1 and 5 + LVM) setup. The motherboard
> has an integrated Promise controller that "thinks" the two disks
> attached are a single logical RAID0 disk.
>
> If I ever had a windoze on those disks it would run as if it was on a
> single striped disc, according to controller BIOS.
>
> While I was building this computer I also tested the software array
> phisically removing one of the striped discs, despite the dreadful
> error messages (the computer refuses to boot without an human
> intervention) at boot Linux booted flawlessly, just marking the array
> as corrupted.
>
> As I said before, to help OP we need more details about his setup.
>
> Side note: I use LILO. MB: Asus A8V-deluxe, no GRUB nor Nvidia here, so
> YMMV!.
>
> Ciao
>         Francesco
>
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