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From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: Brian Kress <kressb@fsc-usa.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 09:50:42 +1100 (EST)
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Subject: Re: 2.4.0-test11 crashes on boot with RAID5
In-Reply-To: message from Brian Kress on Monday November 20
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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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