RE: FC4t2 no good without LILO

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On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:28 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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.

You haven't seen adaptec scsi host raid then :)

>   Now with SATA I
> can almost guarentee 99.9% of the onboard 'RAID' is winraid.
> 

fwiw dmraid is in progress of supporting this stuff; the lilo / grub /
anaconda integration isn't entirely trivial though ...
(and that has nothing to do with grub vs lilo)

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