Unfortunately jeremy is correct Promise FastTrak is nothing more than some bios hacks, and not better than software raid, maybe even worse. If you really want your OS on the raid and don't want to have to buy a true hardware card I suggest installing another (small) harddrive and putting /boot in it. You may need to custom compile a kernel, I do not remember from the last time I did had to mess with one of those cards -Ryan On 7/14/05, Jeremy Rosengren <jeremy at rosengren.org> wrote: > Kevin Lombardo wrote: > > >hello- > > > >i am installing FC4 on a Dell Precision 450. this machine contains a > >(Promise) FastTrak S150 TX2 SATA RAID controller. i have the drives > >set up as RAID 0. > > > >running the FC4 install goes fine, and i specify to install grub on > >mbr on /dev/sda which is the array. however, when rebooting, grub > >doesn't even start. > > > >i made a grub boot disk and booted to the command shell, and it seems > >that the hdd's aren't listed, so i am assuming grub can't see them. i > >typed in root( and then hit tab and no drives were available. > > > >i'm not sure why, because the bios should be loaded. if i install > >another OS on the array, it will boot from the array. > > > >is this just a grub issue, or can i not have my kernel on a SATA RAID > >controller? will another linux bootloader work? > > > > > This thead: > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2004-February/013178.html > seems to indicate that Promise RAID controllers aren't true hardware > RAID and need a software driver (in the form of a kernel module) in > order to be used under Linux. grub doesn't have support for non-"true > hardware" RAID devices, afaik. > > -- jeremy > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >