Comment 5 for bug 97655

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Thomas Bittermann (pufferbrater) wrote :

Hi Chad,

the patch(es) worked for me without a glitch. What kernel version did you use?
Here's my command history ...

 1. apt-get install linux-source build-essential bin86 libncurses-dev kernel-package
 2. pushd /usr/src/
 3. tar xjf linux-source-2.6.20.tar.bz2
 4. ln -s linux-source-2.6.20 linux
 5. pushd linux
 6. cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
 7. make oldconfig
 8. wget -q -O - http://librarian.launchpad.net/7394177/linux-2.6-dm-raid45.patch | patch -p1
 9. wget -q -O - http://librarian.launchpad.net/7394193/linux-2.6-dm-raid45-buildfix.patch | patch -p1
10. make menuconfig # enable "RAID4/5 target (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)" in "Device drivers" -> "Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)"
11. make-kpkg clean
12. make-kpkg --initrd --revision=dmraid45 kernel_image
13. popd
14. dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.20.3-ubuntu1_dmraid45_i386.deb
15. popd

Good luck!