Any version of gentoo-sources that is based on the 2.4.20 kernel source tree, does not allow a RAID 0 device (/dev/md?) be used as the root partition. Wolk-sources, vanilla-sources and ac-sources do allow this (as they should). I am using lilo-22.5.1, if that helps at all. Currently I am running using wolk-sources. I imagine it is a particular patch or set of patches that are applied to gentoo-sources that disallows this standard feature of Linux Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a raid 0 root partition /dev/md0 for instance. Compile vanilla-sources with built-in (not as a module) raid 0 support. 2. Configure lilo as usual and add a suitable append= line. For example append="md=0, /dev/hda3, /dev/hdb1", run /sbin/lilo as usual 3. Reboot and your RAID 0 workds properly 4. Repeat steps 1-3 with gentoo-sources and your RAID 0 root partition will not work, the linux OS will not boot up, and you will be left with a kernel panic VFS error, saying that the root partition cannot be found Actual Results: kernel panic: VFS root partition cannot be found. (Or something similar) Expected Results: Booted the RAID 0 correctly, like wolk-sources, vanilla-sources and ac-sources do.
post your .config and 'emerge info' for starters. Do not paste in the .config, put it as an attachment. Thanks, Jay
Im using gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r5 right now on md0 @ / Do you have your partition types set as linuxraid? Is your /boot on the raid0 or another partition? also i donot use the md append line, as linuxraid takes care of it.
Ignore me <<< We are having Bugzilla database issues.
