G'day from Australia, I have a promise fastrak 100, and 4 60 gig disk drives. Currently i have several of these boxes configured as raid 0 with stock red hat 7.1 I performed the install following the doc on http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/promisehowtorh71/2.shtml The key to getting it to work and boot from the raid is the script ( setup_ft )that needs to be run @ the end of the red hat install. It is contained in the disk 2 of the promise drivers. # chroot /mnt/sysimage # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy # cd /mnt/floppy # ./setup-ft setup_ft contains #!/bin/sh cp ./modules/ft.o /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/scsi/ /sbin/mkinitrd --with ft -f /boot/initrd-ftup24.img 2.4.2-2 cp -f ./script/sed_script /tmp/sed_script ROOT=`grep 'root=/dev/' /etc/lilo.conf | sed '1!d' ` echo " "$ROOT"\\" >> /tmp/sed_script echo " initrd=/boot/initrd-ftup24.img\\" >> /tmp/sed_script echo " " >> /tmp/sed_script echo "Run LILO :" sed '/default=linux/d' /etc/lilo.conf > /etc/tmp1.ft sed -f /tmp/sed_script /etc/tmp1.ft > /etc/tmp.ft mv /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bak mv /etc/tmp.ft /etc/lilo.conf sync;sync;sync; /sbin/lilo echo "***********************************************" echo "* Promise FastTrak Series *" echo "* Linux Driver v1.20 build 5 (2.4.2-2 UP) *" echo "* has been installed completely *" echo "***********************************************" rm -f /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/scsi/ft.o rm -f /tmp/sed_script /etc/tmp1.ft sync;sync;sync; Now if i want to compile my own kernels ( i require firewire support ), every time i compile and reconfigure the system for the new kernel, when the machine reboots it does not see the raid and will not boot. As i am a fledgling in the world of kernel compiles, i require some advices as to how i can compile my own kernel and still get the system to boot from the raid ? I did have a play with initrd etc but to no avail. :( Any help much appreciated. Steve
