kernel-image-2.4.12 and booting from a RAID

[Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>]

Pardon this question, but is it possible (and how) to boot from an
RAID-1 with an kernel-image-2.4.12 kernel, i.e. boot and root=/dev/md0 ?

This is on a woody system with raidtools2.

AFAICS, the included initrd won't work, so I guess I'll have to prepare
a custom initrd with at least the raid1.o module included. But this
doesn't suffice, booting 2.4.12 still hangs with messages about a bad
magic number from cramfs ?!

I went as far as including /sbin/raidstart and an /scripts/00raid in the
initrd, that should start up /dev/md0, but that didn't help as well (and
it looked much too complicated to be the way to go ;-)

So is there an easy way to set this up ?


    Gregor