Getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel

["Martijn Brinkers" <m.brinkers@pobox.com>]

Hi I am trying to get RAID 1 working on Debian 3.0 2.2 kernel.

I used the patch from:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/kernel-patch-2.2.20-raid

I followed the custom build kernel tutorial at: 
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

selected the RAID settings from menuconfig.

The build seems to be ok. dpkg installed the kernel, modified lilo and
setup the links. In / vmlinuz points to the newly build/installed
kernel in boot. Whats strange is that "uname -a" keeps reporting the
same name (Linux corbu 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
i686 unknown) as it was reporting before my new kernel was installed.
It looks as the new kernel is not working. For RAID support there has
to be a /proc/mdstats but its not there.

I also tried the custom build the 'hard-core' way (ie. not using the
handy debian tools) but got the same result.

I also tried a custom build with 2.4 kernel but "uname -a" still keeps
reporting "Linux corbu 2.2.20-idepci #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002
i686 unknown"

I must be doing something completely wrong but don't know what.

Any tips?

Thanks

Martijn Brinkers