RE: [Bug 471] New: Root on software raid don't boot on new 2.5 ke rnel since after 2.5.45

[Martin J. Bligh]

Please send emails re bugs back to the submitter, which in this
case was [e-mail] (Troels Liebe Bentsen)

--On Wednesday, March 19, 2003 05:50:28 -0800 "Cress, Andrew R" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Martin,
> 
> You didn't list your kernel configuration.
> Make sure you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y (not =m) for root mirroring.
> This is easy to forget, since the default is =m.
> 
> The others should be able to be modules, however you know that 
> the module interface is radically changed in 2.5.45 and beyond,
> so trying it with the other scsi & raid modules compiled in would 
> be a good test.
> 
> Andy
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helge Hafting [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 5:15 AM
> To: Martin J. Bligh
> Cc: linux-kernel
> Subject: Re: [Bug 471] New: Root on software raid don't boot on new 2.5
> kernel since after 2.5.45
> 
> 
> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471
>> 
>>            Summary: Root on software raid don't boot on new 2.5 kernel
> since
>>                     after 2.5.45
> 
> Root on raid-1 works fine for me, with and without devfs.  My kernel has
> no module support, everything is compiled in.  I don't use initrd.
> I have used root-raid with every 2.5 kernel except for a few that had
> raid bugs. (Affecting all raid, the root weren't special.)
> 
> Until recently the root raid always did an unclean shutdown, but this didn't
> cause other trouble than a bootup resync.
> 
> 
>