The current stable release of lilo (22+ )support booting from hpt raid arrays, dunno about promise tough Il mer, 2001-12-12 alle 11:53, Warren Togami ha scritto: > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 13:21, Luis Soeiro wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am trying to install RH7.2 to a Abit-KG7-Raid MB with 2 80GB HDs in Raid-0 > > mode (using the HPT370 chipset). Unfortunately, I had no luck yet. > > > > Do you know what I can do to create a bootable floppy to start the > > instalation? The Highpoint drivers don't work with RH7.2.I already have a > > partition in Raid array set aside for RH7.2, but I just can't figure out > > what to do. > > > > Erhhh, I'm also very new to Linux. I used to play with Slackware a few > > _ages_ ago, but you didn't have to worry very much about different hardware. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Luis Fernando > > Sorry, it is currently impossible to install Red Hat Linux directly off > of the CD, even with a driver floppy disk. Some people have managed to > make a custom kernel floppy disk, but this is extremely difficult and I > cannot recommend this for new users. > > The only method that I've managed to make it work is with an extra > non-RAID hard drive. I installed RH 7.2 onto that disk, recompiled my > kernel with the ATARAID and Promise (in your case HPT) driver in the > kernel, then copied Linux onto the RAID array. GRUB should be able to > boot it directly off the array, but I have been unsuccessful in this > regard. I ended up using the patched LILO at > http://ataraid.slimyhorror.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list > >
