Hi Christian, I wrote this a little earlier: ---------------------------------- Seems like many people are trying the same as me, so here a summary: Config: MSI K7T266R with onboard Promise FastTrak lite ATA-RAID 2x 40GB IBM UDMA100 as RAID 0 Athlon 1 GHz etc... SUSE 7.2 (OKok, I'm no RedHat, but I have used your kindly supplied drivers) Problem: How to install the system in a RAID partition and boot from it. [...] What I have done: - Installed a minimal system on an idle third disk; the ugly part of it - you need a temporary space to put your system. The problem is obviously how to put a bootable system together, from where you can continue the installation with an installation routine that doesn't support your hardware - mounting part of the array as single disk and part of it as raid creates some VERY strange behaviour (I have tried to move a small partition for installation to the very end of /dev/hde and then install to RAID partitions at the beginning of the disks - no way). Hence the third disk - Got Kernel 2.4.9 and patched it with ac14 - Compiled RAID support for Promise in (will probably also work for Highpoint) - booted the new kernel - now the system recognizes the array at boot time and can mount it directly - partitioned and formatted the array for my new system - copied the system as was onto the new partitions - copied the kernel on a floppy and booted from Win98 using loadlin - FROM THE ARRAY NOW (root device = /dev/ataraid/d0p*) - removed the third disk from the system. - installed the rest of the system with very nice disk performance :-)) - VOILA The whole thing is a little shaky (always make sure to keep a working kernel when you play around with new compilations) and I am still using loadlin to boot, since LILO doesn't like the /dev/ataraid. Next step will be patching LILO, but loadlin with a bootmenu under Win98 is working fine for the moment. A more elegant way would be to take the SUSE (or RedHat for that matter) installation boot-disk, unpack the ramdisk image, build a new one with the new kernel, put everything back together, boot and install from that disk. What I don't know is, how the part of the installation system that resides on the CD will react to that boot-disk. Any volunteers to try that? ;-)) ----------------------------------------- I have just done the same thing with SuSE 7.3. Some comments, though: - replace kernel 2.4.9 with 2.4.17 - patched and installed LILO -One thing, that happened to me with reiserfs: while copying my system to the array with cpio, all files on the reiserfs / were there and readable, but not executable had to do it again with cp. cpio worked fine for ext2. Hope, this helps!! Stephan __________________________________________________ From: Christian Punchin <cpunchin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: SuSE Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:51:59 -0500 Reply-To: ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx Ok people... Has anyone installed SuSE 7.3 it on a Fastrak Lite with RAID-0??
