Re: HighPoint

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Yes, just got it going. Basically I followed the highpoint installation
instructions (found in
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/372drivers_down.htm) and installed a
redhat 7.2 using the highpoint supplied driver. This gave me a working
system with the only disks in the system those attached to the raid
controller, using Raid 0 setup using the hardware controller. So my
system now boots from /dev/sda with /dev/sda1 being the root partition.

Next I downloaded 2.4.18 and patched it to 2.4.19-pre7 and then applied
the latest ide patch.
(http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/ide-2.4.19-p7.all.convert.6.patch.bz2).
>From this point I followed http://solar.murty.net/~murty from step 4.
Upgrading to the latest version of lilo (version 22.2 which involved
some small tweaks). 

This is where the problems started and I had to modifiy murty's
tutorial. Because my system was using /dev/sda as its boot device and
because I didn't have the ataraid code compiled into the kernel which
highpoint supplied, lilo was unable to write to its boot information on
to the MBR of /dev/ataraid/d0 ( as instructed in lilo.conf with
boot=/dev/ataraid/d0 ) so I set boot = /dev/sda and ran lilo
successfully, and rebooted. The system came up correctly and then I
reverted to murty's settings and set boot = /dev/ataraid/d0 in lilo.conf
and re-ran lilo. 

This is what worked for me, use it at your own risk ....

I have a KR7A motherboard from Abit, which is using a HighPoint 372
controller, and I have RAID133A set as my boot device in my bios.

Adam
 


On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 18:47, Orlando Richards wrote:
> Anyone had any luck getting a boot loader (preferably lilo for my
> preference) working on a "hardware" raid device - ie, /dev/ataraid/d0p1?
> 
> If so - how?
> 
> Orlando
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