G'Day,
    I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server for a school, the main
objective being that it will stay running with a minimum of maintainence.
To this end I intend to set up a RAID 1 for /, /usr, /home and RAID 0 for
/var. However, I'm having difficulty getting the thing to boot using the
RAID device as /. I've followed the steps outlined in the Software RAID
Howto on setting up a root RAID using only two drives (setting the current
root partition as a failed disk in the raidtab and using the RAID device in
degraded mode). All RAID devices are detected at boot when using a standard
partition as root, however the kernel complains that it cannot read the
superblock when trying to boot with root=/dev/md0.

I have an initrd image which includes the raid1 and ext2 modules and the
fstab on the raid device has been modified to use /dev/md0 as root, however
I feel that the problem is occuring before the fstab is read.

I'm using Debian Woody with the 2.4 kernel, the hard-drives are the same
specs and set up as the masters on ide0 and ide1 buses.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, as well as any suggestions of other
ways of ensuring the statbility of the system.

Cheers,
Adrian

