[3474] in RedHat Linux List
initrd problems solved
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail))
Fri Nov 8 17:49:55 1996
From: "Carpenter, Dean (MS Mail)" <dcarpenter@kraft.com>
To: "'Redhat list'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 16:45:51 -0600
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Hah - got it.
Stupid - didn't have initrd support in the kernel, just ram disk. Once
that was in place, it was a bit of trial and error, but now the system
works. It uses a small 5 meg partition to hold /boot and selections
from /etc and /dev. The initrd just loads and starts the MD drivers,
then the raid0 combined partition is loaded as the root.
One hiccup was that lilo doesn't like /dev/md0 or /dev/md1 as a root=
entry. I used rdev to set the root in the kernel file, then deleted the
root= line from lilo.conf. Works like a champ ...
--
Dean Carpenter
dcarpenter@kraft.com
deano@areyes.com
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