Boot from ICH6R Intel Software SATA Raid?
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 18 13:23:27 UTC 2005
Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> Well I'm back after a long absence, mainly work related, but also due to
> a hardware upgrade that has effectively left me Linux-less ... specifically:
>
> Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D mobo
>
> 2 x WD Raptor 74GB RAID0 (Boot + OS)
> 2 x Maxtor 400GB RAID0 (Data + Scratch)
> All running off an Intel 82801FR SATA Raid Controller (ICH6R)
You've found http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html , by the sound
of things, telling you that this isn't real RAID.
> libata (ata_piix)
> ataraid (iswraid)
> dmraid
>
> Working from memory, and IIRC, the first two are present and loaded
> correctly during setup.
>
> However, anaconda does not seem to be running dmraid to activate the
> raid volume, and indeed when I jump to the console to run dmraid
> manually, it is not available (not part of the stage2.img).
If you follow the link to dmraid on the above page, you'll notice that
DMRaid is a work in progress, that was being developed while FC3 was
being released (in other words: too late for FC3). I don't know whether
FC4 will include this: the feature set is not yet set in stone.
Possibly your best bet is an old IDE drive, a minimal Fedora install,
and then playing with dmraid to mount partitions on the RAID.
Sorry I can't be of any more help,
James.
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