Re: Root on RAID

Chris Hamilton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.distributions.rock.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I found this problem for my Xmas raid as well.  However, mkinitrd.sh in ROCK 2.1
unless it has been updated in the last few weeks does not work what-so-ever for
2.6 modutils.  I rewrote it so that it would search for modules just parsing
modules.dep and have the option of using lsmod, not just the hwscan file(since
it isn't used in rockplug anyway).  My script doesn't insert module
dependencies in order, nor does it copy and modprobe parameters from the hwscan
file.

Even then, it appeared to not run the linuxrc and since the md stuff is in the
kernel and not initrd it is loaded in the wrong order to autodetect arrays
anyway.  I looked at other distro's mkinitrd.sh, saw that they were much more
capable/smart and got discouraged.  So I ended up monolithing the whole thing.

Maybe my ROCK build was special and it works as is for others...  If you are
interested in my mkinitrd.sh I can pass it to you.  I would suggest some
serious copying from somewhere else though.

-Chris Hamilton

Quoting Benjamin Schieder <blindcoder-1k+CIuW/[email protected]>:

> Hi list.
>
> After talking to a co-worker who wanted to try ROCK over the weekend (but
> couldn't because our bootdisk doesn't support sata (is on my TODO)) he also
> asked me about rootfs on RAID in ROCK.
> So, here I am, looking at the mkinitrd.sh code and this question arises:
>
> Is there already a hook to add more calls and programs to the initrd?
> If not, should I think of one? Is anyone already thinking about this?
>
> Greetings,
> 	blindy
>
> --
> Benjamin 'blindCoder' Schieder
> Registered Linux User #289529: http://counter.li.org
> finger blindcoder-1k+CIuW/[email protected] | gpg --import
> --
> /lusr/bin/brain: received signal: SIGIDIOT
>


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