2004-06-10 RAID installation

Today was one of those days that doesn't really make any sense...=) A RAID installation would usually be Rambo's job but the unfortunate thing is that he's on a vocation...damn it. Me and Kuokola both have as much experience installing RAID and that is none. Kaukola had something else to do so we agreed that I should try to install the RAID.

I don't have keys to the server room so a guy from TMV-vision gave me a ride and let me in. Rambo had given me some instructions about the RAID installation, which was helpful. To avoid problems with initrd I compiled a custom kernel with EXT3, SCSI and RAID1 and didn't have any problems with that.

I rebooted the system with the new kernel and the result was a kernel panic...typical...=)

Something like:

Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root partition /dev/sda3

Hmm...don't know if I forgot something from the kernel...well anyway it just can't mount the root partition. The guy from TMV-vision had to leave so I went with him and had to leave the problem unsolved.

No RAID, no serving Midgard sites...