On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 04:43, Murty Rompalli wrote: > > I know some of you are trying to install RH 7.3 , Linux ataraid with > Promise FastTrak. > > I have the following suggestions to achieve this; If you are trying RH7.3, > I would appreciate your comments on these, OR anyone has better ideas!! > > > 1. Install RH 7.3 on one disk using boot time Append Line. Then > "repair" using Promise FastTrak BIOS (Cntrl-F) i.e., to create RAID > This will not work as the ide driver will ignore fasttrak controller unless the "fast feature" option is enabled. (CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y) So you'd need a custom kernel. Then you'd also need to update the kernel, util-linux, and lilo packages be be able to handle ataraid devices. I've done this method on a Tyan 2515 with a builtin fasttrak controller. > 2. Mount boot.img on loop0, replace its kernel by same version BOOT kernel > but WITH built-in ataraid/pdcraid support. Then dump boot.img to a > floppy. Install with this boot floppy. (To prepare kernel, use > kernel-sourceXXX-BOOT-i386.rpm, and appropriate config in configs/ ) > This doesn't really work as the RH installer doesn't know what to do with a /dev/ataraid device. Even if it did would try to install on the actual drives, as well as raid devices. Also I think you'd need to update parted, and (s)fdisk on the cdrom as well. (Yes I looked into doing it, but it wasn't worth that much of my time.) > 3. Mess with ft.o (partial) source code rel.tgz available under LinuxBETA > folder at ftp://ftp.promise.com/ Especially, try adding module parameters > for IO Base1, Cntrl Base1, IO Base2, Cntrl Base2. > Make sure you always use kernel-source-XXX-BOOT-i386.rpm and i386 config > from configs/ directory. Otherwise you get a lot of "symbol not found". > Then boot with CD, with Append Line (must specify IRQ in the Append Line > to prevent crash). After you generate ft.o this way, just copy to a dos > floppy and try to use it during installation. (mount -t vfat /tmp/fd0 > /tmp/whatever; insmod ft.o) > What's the exact link on that. Last I talked to Promise they weren't releasing partial source to anyone, but OEMs.
