Re: 2.5.34 unable to mount root FIXED in bk6

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@broadpark.no>]

I use modules only for seldom-used stuff
like floppy & scanner.  The RAID is compiled-in.
It works in 2.5.33, and works again in 2.5.34-bk6,
where some raid fixes related to partitioning problems
went in.

Helge Hafting


"Cress, Andrew R" wrote:
> 
> Helge,
> 
> You've probably already checked this, but is  CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y ?
> It won't work if you have a root mirror and this is a configured as a
> module.
> 
> Andy Cress
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Helge Hafting [mailto:helge.hafting@broadpark.no]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 1:24 PM
> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
> Subject: 2.5.34 unable to mount root fs on 09:00 (smp,raid1,devfs,scsi)
> 
> 2.5.33 works. 2.5.34 and 2.5.34-bk3 won't mount the
> root fs.  The root fs is on /dev/md/1, composed
> of 2 partitions on different scsi disks.
> 
> The RAID-1 setup is autodetected, so it don't look
> like a hardware or scsi problem.  Everything seems normal
> until the root mount fail and the kernel hangs.  Not
> even sysrq works after that.
> 
> Helge Hafting
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