Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> writes:

> Quoting Bob Tanner (tanner at real-time.com):
> > I have made a Redhat 6.2 box with a /var as a Linear mode device.
> > 
> > My first attempt was to compile linear mode as a module, but the kernel yacks
> > on boot about not being able to load RAID files.
> > 
> > So, my second attempt was to compile Linear into the kernel, but now I get
> > unresolved references.
> > 
> > The root-raid HOWTO does not seem relevant to my situation. Any ideas?
> 
> Look more in-depth at the problem, I even see the RAID personalities being
> registered with the kernel:
> 
> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> linear personality registered
> raid0 personality registered
> raid1 personality registered
> raid5 personality registered
> 
> But then:
> 
> Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode [  OK  ]
> Finding module dependencies [  OK  ]
> Starting up RAID devices: /dev/md0: Invalid argument
> /dev/md0 must be a nonpersistent RAID0 or LINEAR array!
> md0 

What's you're raidtab look like?  How did you format /dev/md0?

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