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On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 22:18:17 -0700 |
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"Darren Twa" <twa@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2. This is more important. My system is one that has an onboard |
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Highpoint |
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> RAID controller (Abit KT7-RAID). In the install when you must chroot |
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after |
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> mounting the cd image I was unable to follow the instructions further |
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> because there were not devices for hard drives e,f,g,h only a,b,c,d. To |
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> install I was forced to move the drive I wanted to install to the other |
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> controller because I didn't know how to create the necessary devices at |
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that |
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> point. This just made the disk disappear and I had to install LILO |
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because |
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> Grub was totally lost. |
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> |
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> Thanks for Gentoo. It looks like the Linux I've been looking for. |
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> Darren |
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Ohhhhhhh boy :p I have a highpoint 370 controller on my mobo (epox 8k7a+) |
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and the RAID support is only present in the alan cox kernel releases. It |
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took some time before I figured out how to get the kernel I compiled to |
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boot the root image off the disk (lol... hint "rdev" and linuxdoc.org). So |
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when I did get it booting properly, I mounted devfs and hurrah there was |
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/dev/ataraid/disc0. The only way I got grub to install was from a bootdisk |
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- installing from linux seemed to mess up my array... YMMV :p I'm |
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proud to say that everything is running quite nicely now =) good luck! |
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Also keep in mind any /dev/hd(e,f,g,whatever) will NOT be the raid array |
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and WILL screw stuff up if you try to format it, write to it, etc. |
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--lordjoe |
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