Fedora Core 5 Test 3 + nforce raid = noboot?

[Glen Bishop]

hello,

im having difficulty getting core 5 test 3 installed on my system, its an
asus a8n-vm csm motherboard (nforce 430) and 2 seagate barracuda drives in
a raid1 done by the nvidia 430.  there seems to be talk of other having
this issue over on fedoraforum.org but not much resolution, so im looking
here :)

for me either doing the default layout (with lvm) or creating a custom
partition table makes the boot process fail with the below message (see
screenshot and thanks to the pic donor)

http://www.glenbishop.com/20060225-FC5-test3-kernel_panic.jpg

i can load up the drives in normal sata mode and everything will install
fine, just the raid1 is having the issue.  i've tried a couple things with
grub but nothing seems to work.

does anyone have a resolution for this?  thanks

[Eric Wood]

Glen Bishop wrote:
> i can load up the drives in normal sata mode and everything will install
> fine, just the raid1 is having the issue.  i've tried a couple things with
> grub but nothing seems to work.
>
> does anyone have a resolution for this?

Eventually more info about dmraid will be here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmraidStatus

Frankly, its unclear if dmraid will be stable enough on the supported 
chipsets by the time FC5 is released.  My Via chipset does RAID-1 
reasonably well up until you simulate actual drive replacements, 
rebuilds, etc.

Hopefully, in the future there will be one unified raid monitoring 
software that applies to all chipsets.  Currently in the windows world, 
you have to deal with many various raid monitors with different 
interfaces, nuances, etc... yawn.

-eric wood

[Peter Jones]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 00:32 -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
> Glen Bishop wrote:
> > i can load up the drives in normal sata mode and everything will install
> > fine, just the raid1 is having the issue.  i've tried a couple things with
> > grub but nothing seems to work.
> >
> > does anyone have a resolution for this?
>
> Eventually more info about dmraid will be here:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmraidStatus
>
> Frankly, its unclear if dmraid will be stable enough on the supported 
> chipsets by the time FC5 is released.  My Via chipset does RAID-1 
> reasonably well up until you simulate actual drive replacements, 
> rebuilds, etc.

Yeah, right now we don't handle resyncing at all, nor hot add.