 | | | Linux drivers for promise fasttrak100 onboard IDE raid please? | Linux drivers for promise fasttrak100 onboard IDE raid please? 2005-08-17 - By Daryn
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Hi there.
Old question, I gather but a good'un.
I'm trying to install some version of linux onto a generic 1u server with a
Tyan Thunder LE-T motherboard with 1 hard drive on the "normal" IDE port, one
on the IDE raid port. It's got a Promise Fasttrak100 soft-raid IDE controller
onboard. When I've tried to install Redhat 9, (without using any drivers other
then those that redhat itself contains) it see's the drive on the raid
controller as hde. On using the drivers on a floppy disk from www.promise.com
for redhat 7.2, following the instructions, it sees the drive correctly as
sda. However, in both circumstances, the systems refuses to boot after
installation has successfully been completed. After the bios checks have been
completed, the system shows a flashing cursor on a blank screen and does
nothing else.
However, if a floppy boot disk is in the drive, it boots successfully. This
implies to me that redhat cannot find the boot files. I am installing Grub to
the MBR of hda. Can anyone shed any light on what I'm doing wrong please?
(yes, I know redhat 9 is old and fedora is the way forward but I want to make
sure that i've can install it at all without downloading the cd's for fedora
yet)
Thanks for any help available. I've read of a bloke called jason tang who
enjoys creating promise drivers for redhat installs but his website is missing
at members.rogers.com/sith.warrior.
Steve
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