Typically, the hardware raid I've seen just emulates standard disks.
Since your running an IDE raid card, I assume it would make it look like
IDE disks. Try rebuilding your image and just selecting the IDE sample
disk file. This will try to partition the /dev/hda drive which I think
will be present.

Mike

On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 15:18, Mark D. Kottke wrote:
> Thanks for for the help.  I think you put me onto the right path.  I     
> installed a RAID card to increase my data transfer, which might be the
> problem.  Has anyone tried this before?  And what can be done so the
> autoinstall recongizes the partition?  I am assuming that the autoinstall
> is starting before the RAID drivers have a chance to install.
> 
> The card is a FastTrak TX 2000, made by Promise Technology inc.  And I'm
> running two IDE drives from it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark Kottke
> 
> On 31 Jan 2003, Michael Chase-Salerno wrote:
> 
> > /dev/sda is the drive where /dev/sda1 is a partition its trying to
> > create. It doesn't see the drive at all on your system. There are 2
> > probable causes for this:
> > 
> > 1. You don't have SCSI drives. If you have IDE drives you need to use
> > the ide sample file or specify ide drives (like /dev/hda).
> > 
> > 2. The SCSI adapter on your system is not supported with the SIS boot
> > kernel. This is less likely, but still a possibility.
> > 
> > 3. (ok I lied) The drive is broken.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:55, Mark D. Kottke wrote:
> > > I'm using a fresh install of redhat 7.3 and I'm REALLY new to linux.  The
> > > oscar install seems to go smoothly until I need to autoinstall my
> > > imagenode.  In the beginning of the autoinstall script, which is after
> > > successfully retrieving its IP(which I'm finally achieved), the
> > > autoinstaller fails trying to partition the disk.  I'm pretty much stuck.
> > > 
> > > Here is the error from the client:
> > > 
> > > partitioning sda...
> > > /dev/sda: No such device
> > > sfdisk: cannot open /dev/sda read-write
> > > 
> > > I don't know why autoinstall is trying /dev/sda and not /dev/sda1.  Here
> > > is a copy of my disk partition file, I'm not sure if I got these
> > > settings right
> > > 
> > > /dev/sda1       45            ext3              /boot defaults
> > > /dev/sda2       55714         ext3              /     defaults
> > > /dev/sda3       1992          swap
> > > nfs_oscar:/home  -            nfs               /
> > > 
> > > And if you would like to see, here are the results for sfdisk -l
> > >    Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/sda1   *      0+      5       6-    48163+  83  Linux
> > > /dev/sda2          6    7221    7216  57962520   83  Linux
> > > /dev/sda3       7222    7475     254   2040255   82  Linux swap
> > > /dev/sda4          0       -       0         0    0  Empty
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thank You,
> > > Mark Kottke
> > > 
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> > > 
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> > > keep connected to friends and family, and perhaps most important, keep
> > > feeding their minds. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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