[nmglug] raid1 kernel crash

[Edward F. Brown]

Jason,

If you are still trying to solve this, can you add some details?  OS,
grub.conf, fstab...  Can you still boot from hda only, or are you working
on this from a rescue environment?

-Ed


> Hello
>
> I am at my ends wit! I am trying to setup a software raid1 on my entire
> system, including boot and root.
>
> I keep getting a kernel panic
>
> pivot_root: No such file for directory
> /sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console no such file
> kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
>
> setup partitions on hdb to match hda, marked type fd (raid autodetect)
>
> mdadm --create /dev/md0 --raid-devices=2 --level=1 missing /dev/hdb2,3,4
> etc.
>
> I then mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0,2,3 etc. and copied files from hda to
> appropriate mda.
>
> Modified grub: root (hd0,1) and root=/dev/md0 md=0,/dev/hda2,/dev/hdb2
>
> changed /etc/fstab to be md instead of hd.
>
> I have setup /etc/mkinitrd/modules with various modules I think I may
> need (not too sure what exactly I need)
>
> sis
> sis5513
> ide-core
> ide-generic
> ide-disk
> md
> raid1
>
> I rebuilt initrd with mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.....
>
> Let me know if you see any fault with my method.
>
> -Jason
>
>
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