Re: Compiling 2.6 kernel questions

Alex wrote:

> > The error message:
> >
> >        VFS: Can't mount root unknown-block(9,1)
> >
> > indicates that the kernel is trying to mount /dev/md1 directly (device
> > 9:1 is /dev/md1), which won't work if the md driver is a module (even
> > if the md driver is built in, this won't work if the array needs
> > user-space configuration before it can be mounted).
> 
> I remember using lilo in the past to boot from RAID partitions, no?
> Isn't that why lilo writes the bootsector of both disks in a mirror?

You can do it, but without initrd, it requires that the kernel can
auto-configure the RAID array, and that the md driver is built-in.

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