Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:45 +0800, Hadders wrote:
Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:17 +0800, Hadders wrote:
Hi all,
I'm very close to getting my new hardware setup working. It kinda does.
I'm using the Intel SATA RAID to get RAID 0, Grub as a boot manager,
have installed XP and copied my existing FC5 setup "over" to the new
container.
I can boot into this new setup, but only with the stock Kernel. When I
try the latest Kernel, the device mapper doesn't work and as such, the
system can't find the filesystems.
Over on the ata.raid list, someone has suggested that I run the following:
> dmraid -a n && dmraid -a y
Which deactivates/activates the RAID container in one go?
Then rebuild the initrd for the latest kernel I have (but not running)
I would assume the safest place to run this command would be from
runlevel 1?
Any tips would be appreciated.
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can't think of any reason that runlevel would matter since initrd is
loaded only upon boot.
The way I would probably handle it on my system...
mkinitrd initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.img.custom 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5
cp initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.img initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.img.saved
mv initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.img.custom initrd-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5.img
Though I have learned to check the contents of /etc/modprobe.conf to
make certain that things are the way that I want before I execute
mkinitrd
Craig
I was thinking about the runlevel because I was going to blink the RAID
container out/in of existence briefly, figuring the less things running,
the less likely something might complain.
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no way to know - what mount points are involved.
If /bin is involved forgettaboutit
If /var is involved, I would probably suggest runlevel 1 would probably
be a good idea because it's gonna dump messages to console which gets
messy
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When I download the latest kernel and install it through yum/rpm
process, does an initrd get built automatically?
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yes
Craig
Then I can't see how this will solve my problem, theoretically.
I was running the stock kernel, the RAID container was working, I
downloaded and installed the latest kernel, rebooted and it couldn't
mount root.
Hmmm, I will try anyway, because I'm not sure what else I can do.
