FC5 on fakeraid

[Peter Jones]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:14 -0500, Dan wrote:
> I already posted a bug about this ( 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178079 ), but just 
> throwing it out there:
> With FC5 test 2 (for x86_64 in my case), anaconda is able to install 
> onto my NVRAID 0 array (one of many so-called "fakeraid" implementations 
> of onboard RAID, handled by dmraid), and flawlessly too. Except, 
> apparently, for grub, because booting after installation is complete 
> sends me into a grub prompt.

Does the BIOS actually have the controller listed as a "RAID"
controller, rather than an IDE controller?  Usually this type of failure
means it was set up as a raid, and then the "raid" functionality was
turned off without removing the metadata.

> If I use that prompt to install grub and 
> reboot, I can boot my Windows installations fine, but FC5 kernel panics 
> because it can't find any labeled partitions (especially /). So it now 
> seems like dmraid is working in grub, but not in the startup of Fedora.

You're sure that was test 2, not some newer rawhide snapshot?  (the last
couple of days have been somewhat broken for installing on dmraid;
today's is as well, but tomorrow's should work ok for most people...)

-- 
  Peter