Redhat 7.1 Install

Brian Kelsay bkelsay at home.com
Sat May 5 14:53:03 CDT 2001


I read an article over at
http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/promisehowto/  It's not super
detailed, but it might get you started in the right direction.

Brian Kelsay

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Fowler" <jfowler at westrope.com>
> To: "'Kclug" <kclug at kclug.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 10:33 PM
> Subject: Redhat 7.1 Install
>
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I'm trying to install RH7.1 on a PC that has an A7V-133 mobo w/ the
> onboard
> > Promise FastTrack100 RAID controller. There are two 20GB Hard drives
> setup in a
> > RAID 0 array, no other hard drives are in the system. Using the
> default RH
> > install, disk druid shows the drives as hde & hdg, instead of as one
> RAID drive.
> > Using the "linux dd" I pointed out the disk with the Promise drivers
> and disk
> > druid still doesn't give me the RAID device. I then followed
Promise's
> readme
> > that came with the drivers and I entered in "expert text" at the
boot:
> menu.
> > However, I get a kernel panic saying I need to set root= at boot.
> Anybody have
> > any experience with Promise RAID cards and Redhat or know of a
How-to
> anywhere?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeremy Fowler
>
>
>




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