Re: 2.4.0-test11 crashes on boot with RAID5

From: Neil Brown (neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au)
Date: Mon Nov 20 2000 - 17:50:42 EST


On Monday November 20, kressb@fsc-usa.com wrote:
> Hi all. 2.4.0-test11 is crashing during bootup while
> detecting my raid5 array. According to the EIP printed (assuming
> I did it right), that's in the function xor_block().
> 2.4.0-test10 works fine with the same .config. One of the
> things in the change file for test11 is "make raid 5 work in himem
> configs". Maybe that broke non himem configs?
> My .config is attached. If anyone needs anymore information,
> let me know.

To fix:

- in drivers/md/Makefile

- find line that contains:
    raid5.o xor.o

- swap the .o files to:
    xor.o raid5.o

- recompile
- reboot
- be happy

NeilBrown
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