Why are you trying to rebuild your rescue floppy? The Linux kernel already includes excellent 3Ware drivers so IIANM your rescue floppy should already be able to access the RAID array. If you are using such an old version of Debian that it predates the 3Ware products... you might want to consider upgrading your distro instead of sending back your hardware.
All of the drives are supposed to be on the RAID controller. That's good design. RAID boots fast, especially 3Ware RAID 0. Also, if these are new systems they probably include a CD-ROM reader, correct? You should be able to boot directly from the Debian CD if you set the correct option in the BIOS. Booting from CD is much faster and MUCH more reliable than booting from a floppy. Shawn Yarbrough [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi > > i recieved 3 new systems today ..i was unaware of their > (lack) of design until i opened the case. they are > 1U IDE raid systems from some company called 'pogolinux'. > the problem is there is 4 drives, and ALL of them are on > the raid controller(3ware). since i am not gonna > be using redhat on these systems, i need to figure out > the best way to replace the kernel on the rescue > disk for debian so it will recognize the drives. either > that or i return the systems. I can take care of the > compiling kernel and stuff no problem just would like to > know if there is a way to replace the kernel image. > last time i checked, when i mounted the rescue disk > all it was was a bunch of files, so could i just copy > my new kernel on top of the old one?(don't need to > worry about modules i won't be using any at first, everything > will be statically built). or is there something more > to it. last time i created a boot disk with kernel-package > it seemed to be a rather inflexable boot disk(didn't have > lilo, or at least didn't have it configured so i could do > other things with it, it would just boot without prompting) > i really don't like the idea of having the OS on raid > especially because we will be running them in raid0, > that would indeed suck to have the OS itself go down > because of a storage drive dieing. > > any help would be appreciated. > > thanks! > > nate > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
