Re: kernel panic booting from raid5 with external log

[Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>]

>>>>> "ingo" == Ingo Juergensmann <ij@spice.cologne.de> writes:

ingo> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 02:51:03PM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote:
>> Try passing mount options into the rootfs using the rootflags= boot option.

ingo> Ok, tried at lilo prompt: linux rootflags=logdev=/dev/sde2

ingo> Sadly this results in a kernel panic as well.

ingo> After the NET4 unix domain sockets message something like this appears:

ingo> EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option logdev
ingo> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
ingo> .
ingo> .
ingo> <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init

Let me guess, you are using initrd, if that is true, you need to make
tricks in the initrd to get that options passed to the _real_ rootfs.

Later, Juan.


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