> Samuel Flory <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Steve & Dee McInerney wrote: > > >All, > > > >First off I have not yet been able to successfully get RH8 up on a > FastTrack > >TX2 system. But I have had some minor success in getting close. > >In the interests of helping us all slowly get there: I'll share what > I've got > >so far. > > > > > Have you considered: > 1)Installing the system without the mirror, creating a mirror in the > bios, and then switching over to the ataraid devices. Not using a mirror: raid 0 instead. The system actually exists, is basicially a RH7.3 system. So i'm somewhat loath to completely wipe and restart. > 2)Installing the system onto a single drive while the mirror is > active. > Switching to F2 at the end and copying the contents of the 1st drive > to > the 2nd. Then loading the module, and mounting the ataraid device, > and > reinstalling your boot loader onto the ataraid device. I've actually started down a similar path. Grabbed an old 4Gb drive, and have installed a basic RH8 system on that. I'll then essentially copy the new system over the top of the old - on the raid'ed patitions. Then re-configure all the config from backups. Evil and kludgy, but seems the best option. > 3)Creating 2 individual drives in the promise bios, and using > software > raid. This is what I do. Certainly a valid option, but already have the system.... > Are you sure mknod /tmp/ataraid/d0 (and c0p1...) doesn't work. Or > "mknod /tmp/d0 b 114 0", "mknod /tmp/d0p1 b 114 1" Not so much "not sure", as wasn't aware of the possibility. Use of MAKEDEV was very simple and easy to repeat.... > Your issue is the installer doesn't know what to do with the > ataraid > devices. You'd need to modify a bunch of code in the installer. > Then > you'd need to deal with the fact that the installer will want to use > the > actual disks as well. granted - or bypass the installer's existing limitations somehow. - Steve
