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    I've got three machines -- two are identical motherboards.  I've been using
    the same kernel binary on all three machines for over a year thru all the
    upgrades since 2.2.15 (16, 17, and now 18aa2).

    Now that I've compiled 2.2.18aa2 it only works on two of the machines. Both
    of these use RAID1/IDE for boot drives. The machine that doesn't work uses
    a boot floppy as the root drive is RAID5.

    When the "bad" machine boots a "df" that has been inserted in rc.inet2 shows
    the correct root drive having been mounted. But, it seems as though the
    system cannot see most of the RAID5 mount. Booting complains about
    /etc/mtab~ not being a directory, /lib/modules/2.2.18aa2 not existing (even
    though it IS there), and several other files missing. Executable binaries
    seem to work though (i.e. all daemons try to start up).

    The end results is that I can't login to the console (typing doesn't even
    echo any characters). So, I'm somewhat restricted on what I can debug.
    Remote telnet doesn't work either. Can't reboot either, have to alt-sysrq-U
    and hit the reset key.

    Rebooting this machine to 2.2.17-RAID works just fine

    Might there be a problem with RAID5 as root?

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    mblack@csihq.com 321-676-2923,x203
    http://www.csihq.com Computer Science Innovations
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