Re: Boot from ICH6R Intel Software SATA Raid?
Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
Well I'm back after a long absence, mainly work related, but also
due to
a hardware upgrade that has effectively left me Linux-less ... specifically:
Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D mobo
2 x WD Raptor 74GB RAID0 (Boot + OS)
2 x Maxtor 400GB RAID0 (Data + Scratch)
All running off an Intel 82801FR SATA Raid Controller (ICH6R)
You've found http://linux.yyz.us/sata/faq-sata-raid.html , by the sound
of things, telling you that this isn't real RAID.
libata (ata_piix)
ataraid (iswraid)
dmraid
Working from memory, and IIRC, the first two are present and loaded
correctly during setup.
However, anaconda does not seem to be running dmraid to activate the
raid volume, and indeed when I jump to the console to run dmraid
manually, it is not available (not part of the stage2.img).
If you follow the link to dmraid on the above page, you'll notice that
DMRaid is a work in progress, that was being developed while FC3 was
being released (in other words: too late for FC3). I don't know whether
FC4 will include this: the feature set is not yet set in stone.
Possibly your best bet is an old IDE drive, a minimal Fedora install,
and then playing with dmraid to mount partitions on the RAID.
Sorry I can't be of any more help,
James.
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