Re: [cobalt-developers] problems booting the redhat 7.3 kernel on a raq3

["John P. Looney" <valen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 08:52:09AM +0100, John P. Looney mentioned:
>  My current problem is that because I can't tell the boot loader to load 
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img, I can't mount / as ext3, and RAID won't
> work.

 I gave up on initrd, and made a kernel from the redhat source that had
ext3 and raid1 compiled in.

 I managed to get it to boot, but only when hda2 (old root) and hdg1 (new
primary root) had the same new kernel in /boot.

 However, once booting is finished I can't do as the RAID howto suggests,
and add hda2 to the new root mirror 'md1' with 'raidhotadd'. I think it's
because the cobalt booted off hda2, so keeps it..busy in some manner. It's
certainly not mounted.

 using "set_boot_device" to hdg1 or md1 failed, of course.

 Is there any way of working around the shortcomings of the PROM to get
RAID1 working properly ?

John