And verily, didst ah announce to the hordes:

From ah Tue Mar 16 10:10:04 2004 Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] problems with software RAID on 2.6.3 and 2.6.4. To: eresrch@eskimo.com (Mike Rosing) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:10:04 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Mike Rosing" at Mar 15, 2004 10:08:08 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] Content-Length: 919

And verily, didst Mike Rosing announce to the hordes:

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Andrew Halliwell wrote:

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Thanks for the idea, but... Alas, as I suspected, no logs. As the root filesystem isn't getting mounted, it can't mount /var for log writing either.

What modules do you need for raid to work? I have avoided learning that on purpose :-) My bet is that you need to tell the initrd to create a different ram module set than you have now. It's not going to be easy to figure it out. Can you use the interactive boot, or don't you even get that far?

The softRAID's compiled into the kernel (after it failed the first time, I though maybe it wasn't loading the modules correctly, and removed the need) Mounting the root fs is one of the first things the kernel does after initial hardware setup before any scripts (and init) get run, so yeah, it's before the interactive boot part.