Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2391 mails)

[John <john_82@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 May 2008 18:07:43 Per Jessen wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > For software raid, the kernel and modules needed to access the raid
> > have to be accesable before the system is running and the raid itself
> > mounted.
>
> Yes, they're in the initrd.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich

I have a problem with that comment. Windoze for instance has no problem at all 
booting - I assume it uses the intel bios maybe at a reduced performance 
level. Maybe even the board bios itself. Suse 10.0 also had no problems at 
all with the same drives again with an intel on board soft raid. Also I don't 
see how windoze can have loaded the drivers before it has booted.

The suse 10 install did point out that the current kernel didn't support the 
discs and that it might not work but it did. Sounds like the kernel people 
decided to ignore these boards even though there are a huge number on the 
planet. 

My impression though is that my initial problems were entirely down to grub 
getting data that caused numerical errors. Subsequent problems being caused 
by intel not reseting the discs once the raid was removed, and suse getting 
it's knickers in a twist.

John

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