KR7A Raid boot problems...please help!

[Tullphan]

I just installed a KR7A Raid. I'm presently only using one hard drive so I installed it on IDE1. I installed a DVD on IDE2. As this was a new install I configured the bios to boot from CD-Rom. After the XP disk formatted & copied the files, it restarted. I went into the bios & changed the boot procedure to floppy 1st, then hdd-0, then cd-rom. I also disabled the raid.
First off, it's SOOO slow to get through detecting the drives (which, at least it does), then the second screen where it verifies the EMI or whatever...geez, I can take a nap!
The problem is, even though the setup disc recognizes my hard drive and recognizes the partition it created, it won't boot from it. It goes right back through the setup procedure.
Can anyone help, please?

BTW, it's a 1.4 gig T-Bird stepping AHYJA, WD 40gb hard drive, 1 stick of Samsung 512mb, 128mb ATI Radeon 8500. I haven't installed sound or modem yet.

 

[jaeger66]

You need to switch back to having the CDROM boot before the HDD until the OS is installed. During the 2nd boot when it says press any key to boot from CDROM, don't press anything.

 

[billyjak]

On my setup I use IDE 3 as my bootup, and have raid enabled in bios, I found this to be the fastest way to run my hardrive, you don't have to use raid in order to have the hard drive installed.
You'll have to load the raid drivers though. That could be part of your problem Windows looking for a raid driver and not finding any.