Please HELP! Fedora Core 5 Won't Boot!!!

[Vteckz]

Hi, I'm a bit of a noob at this, but here goes....

Ok I'm running 2 120GB Segate Drives in SATA RAID 0. I have 4 partitions.
1x120GB NFTS, 2x20GB NTFS (Different installations of windows), and 1x80GB EXTENDED Partition. Inside the extended partition, there is 2 logical drives. One 2GB for swap, and one 78GB for EXT3.

Now i installed FC5 and the installation went smoothly. Everything worked fine. I choose my root point as the 78GB patrition formated as EXT3, and did not change my 2GB Swap. But now when the installation finishes i cannot boot. It brings up a error just after it initialises the kernel, when it tries to mount the system directorys (root,sys,etc), it says it cannot find the mount point. (I think this means that it cannot see the hard drives because the RAID driver is not loaded at that early part of the initialization..?).

Please help, Thanks.

[birdman]

I am guessing that you have to preload a RAID module in your initrd.

Try making a new initrd with this in mind and add it to or change your existing one in grub.

I believe the module is called ataraid (.ko or .o extension probably) but a --preload=ataraid option in your mkinitrd command might work.

Remember you may have to change your init script in your initrd to sleep to allow the module to be loaded.

Hopefully this will work.

All the best

[Vteckz]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. However i found it was the way i had set up my partitions that was causing it to fault. I had ext3 partition set as root. instead of LVM, also i needed a bigger swap partition. But thanks. Kind Regards