Re: [LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881 - partial success (update)

[Lu, Yinghai]

I'm thinking the way that you can use
1. use LinuxBIOS to boot tiny kernel
2. use RAID5 support in Tiny Kernel and kexec to boot the final kernel.

I wonder if the SW RAID access in FILO is a problem....

YH

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Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:50 AM
To: LinuxBIOS
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881 - partial success (update)

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 04:50:39PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Can you try with single HD instead of RAID5?

I haven't tried that yet, but I just tried after having the raid array
rebuilt running the proprietary BIOS.

The serial log is attached. It took longer now to crash, just as I
observed
the first time I succesfully booted LinuxBIOS. I got a login prompt and
things worked fine for a few minutes. After that, the same thing: serial
log
shows that the fallback image is being restarted, and the machine just
hangs.

In other words, heavy disk activity (sw-raid5 rebuilding) seems to
trigger the
crashes more quickly than otherwise.

Thanks,
Ward.

[LinuxBIOS] tyan s2881 - partial success (update)

[Ward Vandewege]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:24:26AM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> I'm thinking the way that you can use
> use LinuxBIOS to boot tiny kernel
> use RAID5 support in Tiny Kernel and kexec to boot the final kernel.
>
> I wonder if the SW RAID access in FILO is a problem....

I'm not sure why FILO would care. I now boot off (a drive of) a RAID1
partition, which is a perfectly normal drive partition as far as FILO is
concerned. When the kernel is loaded, it has the sw-raid drivers and hence it
can deal with the RAID5 array.

Ward.