Wed, 05 Apr 2006, by stevetjacobs@gmail.com:
I've just set up an OpenSUSE 10 system.
At boot, the system experiences a Kernel Panic and halts prior to completely booting up. The last few lines displayed before things hang are:
[..]
Using the RAID button I created a RAID1 volume of each 'partition-pair', formatting the 1G as swap, and the other 2 partitions as Reiserfs.
I believe/suspect that md0 is the swap partition.
What did I do incorrectly, and how may I repair this? While it would be a huge time sink if I have to reformat and start over, there's no data on the system yet, so it wouldn't be any problem, and I'd rather do it now than later, if it will need to be done at all.
Don't put swap on a RAID. It'll kill performance and won't do anything for data-security anyway. Just select both 1G partitions for use as swap, Linux will then use both swaps round-robin. The procedure for software RAID is easy; make partitions, designate type FD (Linux raid auto) to the RAID partitons, make RAID drives, make filesystems, install. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 9.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.8 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply.