Re: getting RAID-1 working on Debian 3 kernel 2.2
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:30:44 +0200, news.cistron.nl
<m.brinkers@pobox.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
Lilo?
After installing the new kernels, have you modified the lilo.conf and
update it with lilo command?
Andrea
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