On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:30 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > ... > > > Okay, I've attempted to boot from the RocketRAID 2300 card > > using a known-good boot hard disk. > > > > No such luck. > > > > The BIOS on the Highpoint RR 2300 *corrupts* the GRUB image, > > so GRUB won't boot for me there. I actually have to re-install > > GRUB after each attempt so that the drive is usable again > > with the onboard Intel (ahci) ports. > > > > So one then wonders exactly what the Highpoint BIOS is overwriting, > > and how that might affect your particular configuration.. > > > > ??? > > > > I'll try booting from another (non-Highpoint) 7042 board next. > > After I repair GRUB again, that is. > ... > > No joy. My other 7042 and 6042 cards do not have bootable BIOSs. > > So to boot from a 7042 the only theoretical choice is the Highpoint board, > and for that we need to somehow coax it into not overwriting GRUB > every time the onboard BIOS reinitializes. > > Tricky to arrange, that. > > How are you doing it ? Personally, I put all the disks in JBOD mode, but I never had these disks connected to anything but my highpoint cards. Perhaps I should tell you what my setup's like: * In the system I've put 3 Highpoint RocketRaid 2300 cards. * Two of the cards each have 4 Hitachi 750GB disks * Each disk is put into JBOD mode in the 'Raid' Bios of the 2300 * On the drives I have 2 partitions, one 200MB partition and a partition spanning the rest of the 750GB * Both partitions are linux softraid * /dev/md0 is a mirror of all 8 disks and serves as /boot (200MB) * /dev/md1 contains an LVM volume that houses my other paritions (4.7TB) Right now with 2.6.23.9 + patched sata_mv the softraid seems to come up just fine but I pvscan is unable to locate the pv located on md1. I'll try and make a bootable USB stick with my patched 2.6.23.9 and see what the results are then. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
