I had this problem : it's only a problem of ramdisk with RAID5, because when
you are in RAID 5 you have to boot on a ramdisk and after the Megaraid
Driver is loaded, boot on the logicial drive and the unmount the ramdisk.
You only have to make the image of the necessary ramdisk in a file and add a
line in lilo.conf pointing this file (initrd).
To make the image, use /sbin/mkinitrd
Have you installed the initrd in lilo.conf ?
Vincent PINEL
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----- Original Message -----
From: Raphael Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 4:13 AM
Subject: [expert] Problem with an AMI MegaRaid Card
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a DELL poweredge with 256 Mo memory, a pentium 500 CPU and
> an AMI megaraid card with three 11 Gig hard drives. I have created and
> configured a logical drive
> (Raid 5) in the Bios Megaraid card. I just can't install linux with that
> card. I have retrieved
> on ftp://ftp.megaraid.com/megaraid/drivers/linux the boot disk
> and tried to perform the install with it and the Mandrake CD-ROM.
> But everything installed fine, until it asked me if I wanted to create a
> boot disk, and install the booloader.
> I couldn't install successfully any of the two. The boot disk won't
create,
> and the bootloader
> won't install either no matter what I try ( either in the MBR or hte 1st
> sector).
>
> Then I retrieved another boot disk form that same ftp site, and I have
this
> error message
> when I try to boot from it. It says : Warning unable to open an inital
> console
> Kernel Panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
> Has anyone has an idea on what should I do? Is there any more recent
> boot disk I can try? I haven't find anything relevant for the time being,
> and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
> Raph
>
> --
> Raphael Ferreira, French University of the Pacific, Tahiti.
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://chez.mana.pf/~raph
>
>
>
>
