Re: Can't boot from /dev/md0 (RAID-1)

Juri Haberland (juri@koschikode.com)
Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:07:13 +0200


Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> I assume the onboard IDE stuff (hdm) is something like a Promise
>> controller. If so you should be able set the boot order to boot from the
>> normal IDE chipset (hda/hdb). If doesn't help I'd suggest that you ask
>> on the linux-raid mailing list.
>
> The on-board is a VIA controller. see from lspci
>
> 00:0c.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev
> 02)
> 00:0d.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev
> 02)
> 00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: CMD Technology Inc PCI0649 (rev 02)
> 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)

What buffles me is that - according to your dmesg output at
http://karlsbakk.net/bugs/dmesg - the disk connected to the onboard VIA
controller are detected as hdm-hdp.
Have you checked you BIOS settings? Some mainboards allow to use
off-board controllers to be used before the on-board ones...

Juri

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