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Custom initrd troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail))
Thu Nov 7 19:18:05 1996
From: "Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail)" <dcarpenter@kraft.com>
To: "'Redhat list'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:20:15 -0600
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Dang. I'm trying to set up a custom initrd to load up raid0.o and run
mdadd and mdrun for the MD disk striping support. Almost working - I
get a :
Unable to open initial console
error during boot.
The system has two ide drives partitioned like this :
hda1 15meg <== /dev/md0 ==> hdb1 15meg for swap
hda2 7meg for / to boot from
hda3 100meg <== /dev/md1 ==> hdb2 100meg for / for main system
/dev/hda2 contains a copy of /boot, a little bit from /etc, /dev - just
enough to run lilo -r against. The kernel in /boot has had "rdev
vmlinuz /dev/md1" run against it. The /boot dir on /dev/md1 is a
duplicate of that on /dev/hda2.
The initrd I'm using is a copy of the one the install created for the
Buslogic scsi. Since the scsi drive was extra (not booting from it), I
removed BusLogic.o, then I just added the raid0.o file and added
commands to run mdadd and mdrun to linuxrc.
The /dev dir in the initrd contains console, tty0 tty1 tty2 and tty3.
Could it be permissions ? I noticed that tty0 wasn't there - I added
after I got the error the first time.
Any ideas ? I'm sure it's something simple ...
--
Dean Carpenter
dcarpenter@kraft.com
deano@areyes.com
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