I have an Nforce2 motherboard and a Promise Fastrack 100 with 2 80 gb drives set up on a performance raid (0) and I have XP installed
I wanna repartition and install Slackware 9 on the system, but I know that slackware 9 doesn't have BIOS RAID support for the Fastrack
drive. I can't even get past the kernel booting off the CD when I have the 2 80 gig drives plugged into the fasttrack controller, it hard locks on the detection on the drives hooked to the controller.
I unplugged the drives from the RAID controller and put on a 3rd hard drive onto the onboard controller and installed slack 9 on the 3rd drive. I recompiled the kernel to have Promise controller support and the Fasttrack support. If I reboot and have my RAID drives plugged into the Promise card, it will still lock on kernel detection of the promise card. Anyone else have any issues with this?
Also, I am thinking about setting up a partition on my 160 gig (2x80gb) to run this linux and copy the install from the 3rd drive to this partition. My second question is that I wanna know if it is possible to boot the kernel off that partition considering the partition exist on 2 different drives. Would lilo have to deal with this considering its not booting off of a hda/sda device and actually off of a ataraid/d0 device to get to the point to mount this as root... Of course I have to get the thing to read the partition first.
Anyone know anything about thise matter?
I wanna repartition and install Slackware 9 on the system, but I know that slackware 9 doesn't have BIOS RAID support for the Fastrack
drive. I can't even get past the kernel booting off the CD when I have the 2 80 gig drives plugged into the fasttrack controller, it hard locks on the detection on the drives hooked to the controller.
I unplugged the drives from the RAID controller and put on a 3rd hard drive onto the onboard controller and installed slack 9 on the 3rd drive. I recompiled the kernel to have Promise controller support and the Fasttrack support. If I reboot and have my RAID drives plugged into the Promise card, it will still lock on kernel detection of the promise card. Anyone else have any issues with this?
Also, I am thinking about setting up a partition on my 160 gig (2x80gb) to run this linux and copy the install from the 3rd drive to this partition. My second question is that I wanna know if it is possible to boot the kernel off that partition considering the partition exist on 2 different drives. Would lilo have to deal with this considering its not booting off of a hda/sda device and actually off of a ataraid/d0 device to get to the point to mount this as root... Of course I have to get the thing to read the partition first.
Anyone know anything about thise matter?