FC4t2 no good without LILO
Arjan van de Ven
arjanv at redhat.com
Wed Apr 13 16:38:37 UTC 2005
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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