On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 18:08, Aaron wrote: > > >> Is it possible to have 7.2 use my fasttrak as if it were a promise > >> ultra100 card (no arrays setup)? If thats possible, I will just setup > >> software raid and get a separate hard drive for windows. If not, I'll > >> order myself an ultra100 card and ditch the fasttrak entirely. > > 7.2 has the correct modules, BUT the install program barfs when probing. My > solution was to unplug the card, and throw my distro onto a small ide disk I > had hanging around (anything >= 2 gb). I then shut the machine down, > plugged the fastrak card in, set up a raid 0 array with the promise bios. > After booting, I manually insmoded the 2 modules required for ATA promise > raid controllers. From there I created my partitions and file systems, > modified my /etc/fstab and copied over the relavant directories, then > rebooted. Works like a charm. I DO have to have a minimal /boot and / on > an seperate IDE drive that is not part of the RAID. since / and /boot don't > change often it doesn't affect performance much at all. > > I hope this helps. > > Aaron Gee I took exactly this approach, except I later removed the extra non-RAID hard drive. I was able to make it boot directly off the /dev/ataraid/d0 device using the modified LILO at ataraid.slimyhorror.com. I couldn't get GRUB to boot the array after over 10 hours of work, but it is supposedly possible.
