Re: Smart Array driver

Ok, I lied.  I am back to the question of does the driver work
correctly with 2.5.x.  I see it recognize the hardware on bootup
but it can't ever find the root partition.

Here is the df of it on a 2.4.x system

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2    280132792   2405636 263497184   1% /

So they grub kernel config line looks like so

kernel /vmlinuz-2.5.70 ro root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p2

I get this on boot up with 2.5.x:

VFS: Cannot open root device "/cciss/c0d0p2" or unknown-block(0,0)

I don't see what I have wrong in my configs.
Has anyone been able to boot off this RAID controller under 2.5.x?

Steve

[e-mail] wrote:

> Argh, I thought I had checked that option.  That option
> was off and it worked when I turned it on. It didn't boot
> all the way because the kernel didn't understand the
> / label on the partition.  Something I can fix however.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John Stoffel wrote:
>
>> kwijibo> Is the Compaq Smart Array 5XXX driver 2.5.x ready?  Before I
>> kwijibo> get to far into debugging this computer I figure I would ask.
>> kwijibo> It boots fine in 2.4.x kernels but when I try 2.5.70 it
>> kwijibo> freezes at the Uncompressing Linux line.  I thought maybe I
>> kwijibo> didn't the console set up right for 2.5 but as far as I can
>> kwijibo> tell it is and even if it wasn't it should still continue
>> kwijibo> booting and eventually be pingable.  My first thought was of
>> kwijibo> the RAID controller.  This is on a HP Proliant ML530.  Any
>> kwijibo> suggestions?  Config attached.
>>
>> I was going to suggest that you make sure ACPI was turned off, but
>> your config shows that already.  Make sure you have CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE
>> set is all I can think of.
>>
>> John
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