[nmglug] raid1 kernel crash

[js at jasonschaefer.com]

Jason

I am building an initrd with modules, so I don't have to compile raid
support into my kernel or compile a kernel at all.

Jason


Jason Davis wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 13:39 -0600, js at jasonschaefer.com wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>I am at my ends wit! I am trying to setup a software raid1 on my entire
>>system, including boot and root.
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>>I keep getting a kernel panic
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>>pivot_root: No such file for directory
>>/sbin/init: 432: cannot open dev/console no such file
>>kernel panic: attempted to kill init!
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>>setup partitions on hdb to match hda, marked type fd (raid autodetect)
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>>mdadm --create /dev/md0 --raid-devices=2 --level=1 missing /dev/hdb2,3,4
>>etc.
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>>I then mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0,2,3 etc. and copied files from hda to
>>appropriate mda.
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>>Modified grub: root (hd0,1) and root=/dev/md0 md=0,/dev/hda2,/dev/hdb2
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>>changed /etc/fstab to be md instead of hd.
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>>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
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>>I rebuilt initrd with mkinitrd -o /boot/initrd.....
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>>Let me know if you see any fault with my method.
>>
>>-Jason
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>if support is not built into your kernel to mount raid and to deal with
>ext3  , and you are raiding / .... well the kernel cant load drivers
>to work with the filesystem. So , make an initrd img or compile in
>support (not modules).
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>good luck,
>jd
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