RE: HP Netraid... or booting to Hardware raid...

["Andrews, Bryan" <Bryan Andrews SecondShift Net>]

Yeah.. I have another set up with the system drives on the channel0 of the
netraid. The 6.0 install (server default) found it... but it just won't boot
without the floppy... (it sees the drives fine). It doesn't get stuck at LI
either. It simply says 'Insert Bootable Medium' then boots from floppy when
I push it in.

Hmmm....

-----Original Message-----
From: Lance A. Brown [mailto:brown9 niehs nih gov]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:19 PM
To: redhat-list redhat com
Subject: Re: HP Netraid... or booting to Hardware raid... 



Bryan Andrews cox com writes:
>Yeah.. 6.0... on install it sees the card... but like I said, the server
>that is configured with only drives on the RAID asks to 'insert bootable
>media' at start... then runs ok. I was assuming that you had to have the
>boot partition on a bios controlled drive...

Nope.  I've had good success with Intel N440BX motherboards with AMI
megaRAID 762's installed.  You need to make sure your installation
boot disk has a kernel that will recognize the MEGARAID card.  I found 
that I had to select an 'expert' install and specifically ask for the
MegaRAID driver in order to get thigns working, but once I got past
that hurdle everything has been fine.  

This is using Red Hat 5.2 with AMI provided boot disks.  They can be
found on the AMI website (www.ami.com).  I believe Red Hat 6.0 install 
boot disks have AMI support already.

--[Lance]


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