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jbooth

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 34

Arch64 0.8 base install, kernel panics unable to mount md3

Greetings,

I'm installing Arch on a new machine, coming from a long Linux (recently Gentoo) background. I've followed both the RAID/LVM howto and astrocrep's post (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=28046). I think I'm following every step, even including rebuilding the initrd with mkinitcpio -g ..., but it still fails to mount my root filesystem (md3). I see the raid autodetect work and build md3 just before the kernel panic failing to mount it.

If I boot with an initrd of kernel26-fallback.img, then I can boot fine.

Relevant mkinitcpio.conf lines:

MODULES="pata_amd ata_generic sata_nv"
BINARIES=""
FILES=""
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata raid keymap filesystems"
md=1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1 md=3,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3

Relevant /boot/grub/menu.lst lines:

title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz]
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/md3 ro md=3,/dev/sda3,/dev/sdb3
initrd /initrd26.img

Thanks!

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Arch64 0.8 base install, kernel panics unable to mount md3

initrd /initrd26.img

Should be kernel26.img

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jbooth

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Registered: 2006-12-29

Posts: 34

Re: Arch64 0.8 base install, kernel panics unable to mount md3

I did try kernel26.img, but I also dumped my own mkinitcpio into initrd26.img, so that is a valid line. Neither my own initrd or kernel did it (thought kernel26-fallback did).