kernel 2.6 and sata

[Rio Baan]

I've got a Silicon image SATA RAID built-in on my ASUS P4G8X-Deluxe board, 
and it just causes my install of Fedora Core 2 test1 to bomb out.
It gets as far as the gray init screen, and the dots stop swirling during 
"Setting hostname". After that everything locks up.
Unplug the RAID, and presto! It boots OK (but with a few other errors)

Also, I'm a bit miffed that the installer for Fedora only party recognised 
my RAID. My RAID is formatted in NTFS, so that's an excuse. However, when it 
comes time for patitioning during install, a screen popped up saying 
something akin to "Couldn't recognise hde and hdg, would you like to format 
the drives and LOSE ALL DATA". which was a bit frightening. It knew there 
were two drives there, but didn't think to figure out what was on them and 
why.
Autopartition didn't even recognise the RAID's existance when confirming my 
formatting options.
The box to hide/display LVM and RAID during that process seemed a bit 
useless.

The whole SATA RAID thing is just my major sticking point with test1 at the 
moment.


>On Monday 01 March 2004 5:05 pm, Levin Fritz wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > root fs; I eventually gave up and rebooted.
> > I had to copy theses messages to paper first, so there might be a typo
> > here and there.
>
>I had the same problem with Aopen board with a via SATA chipset.  i updated
>the bios which included a sata bios update and had no luck  i returned the
>MOBO  got another one since it was a week old.   i upgraded the bios in the
>new one and havent ahd a problem since.  i cant say for certen if its
>hardware or not  but the 2.6.1 kernel that fc2 test 1 comes with is ok  i
>cant use the 2.6.3 kernels as im being told that there is no psaux device
>cant load the agpart module  but thats another story.  and since its a new
>system  i havent trued FC1
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