> I'm looked through the archives a bit, but with no luck - I'm having > trouble booting off my 3ware 7850 controller, and I'd appreciate any > advice anyone has. > > I can boot off a diskette, but whenever I try to run off the array > itself, my computer hangs - it doesn't even display the start of a GRUB > (or lilo) loader message. In fact, it seems to keep trying to poll the > floppy. (Yes, I do have the 3ware in the boot sequence in BIOS) [snip] Are you sure you're using a kernel that has built-in support for the 3Ware card? Most recent vintage kernels do. Have you tried a monolithic kernel instead of loading it as a module? Do you have the same problem if you put the /boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders of the virtual drive? When you installed the system, did you use a driver disk for the card? Have you tried looking at the FAQ in the support area of http://www.3ware.com/ ? I am booting off the 7x50 and 68** cards on many machines using Redhat 7.0/7.1/7.2. I've not tried Mandrake. Cheers, C - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
