Re: KR7A-RAID

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Hi,

This is the email i posted at the weekend to the list, I have a KR7A too
and it worked for me.

Adam

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 Tue, 2002-04-23 at 10:28, Alan Watson wrote:
> 
> Hi All
> 
>    Is there a work around for booting redhat 7.2 using HPT 372 on the KR7A-RAID 
> motherboard ?
> I am after disk mirroring at the hardware level for resilience and would like 
> to use this feature, any ideas ? it currently panics the kernel using the boot 
> images from the redhat website as boot disks.
> 
> Any info gratefully recieved.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Alan Watson
> 
> 
> 
> 
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