Hum, tried an install to a USB key on a motherboard with two 3ware 7810 controllers, each with eight 320GB PATA drives attached. The intention was/is to use software RAID as it is more performant than the hardware raid of the controllers.
The first issue was that although the Anaconda installer loads the usb-storage module, and if I grab a shell and do an fdisk -l it shows up, the key is not available as an install target... Testing with CentOS 5 and it shows up. Not to much of an issue I can install to one of the PATA drives and haxor it up to USB key boot. Then I hit another issue, looks like grub gets really upset if there are more than eight drives, and refuses to install on drive 17 which is where the BIOS/motherboard is placing the USB key. This sucks somewhat. I can again haxor this up with a better boot loader (I always had a dislike of grub) but perhaps this should be looked into for possible future feature improvements. I guess quite a few people might look to do something similar. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +441382-386998 Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences University of Dundee, DD1 5EH _______________________________________________ Openfiler-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openfiler.com/mailman/listinfo/openfiler-users
