On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:09 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote: > If the drive is on the controller and configured, and it > works properly as a drive, there should be no reason you > should not be allowed to boot from the drive if BIOS will > allow you to boot from that drive. > > How do you know for sure what RAID is on his motherboard? > > Compaq used to ship Proliants with there SmartArray 2 controller > on board which is a Dual Port LVD SCSI Array Controller, far > from winraid. Because AFAIK there is no winraid onboard SCSI chips. Now with SATA I can almost guarentee 99.9% of the onboard 'RAID' is winraid. Also his statement of "cheap efficiency I use the simple RAID that the motherboard has onboard, which is precisely the thing that grub has the most trouble with" Sounds like onboard winraid to me... -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating