If you don't mind doing that, I would be more than happy to test it for you :)
Thanks very much! Merry Christmas all! Paul -----Original Message----- From: Mario Gzuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 December 2007 15:57 To: Paul Lewis Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] RAID on the Dell Optiplex GX755 Hi Paul! The raid is no hardware raid. It needs a software to work. For windows there is an driver, but not really for linux. The only one is this: It is possible to use Device Mapper ("DM") and dmraid: http://people.redhat.com/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ The following ATARAID types are supported: Adaptec HostRAID ASR Highpoint HPT37X Highpoint HPT45X Intel Software RAID JMicron JMB36x LSI Logic MegaRAID NVidia NForce Promise FastTrack Silicon Image Medley SNIA DDF1 VIA Software RAID But: "This is Alpha software and it can destroy your data!" See also: http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html I have no test system to integrate this into the boot-cd but I can install it and give a special release to you. WDYT? greetings mario Am Freitag, den 21.12.2007, 14:40 +0000 schrieb Paul Lewis: > Hi guys, > > > > Has anyone tried using unattended on a Dell OptiPlex GX755 with RAID > (mirroring)? My colleague has just tried to install a PC this way, and > the following seems to happen: > > > > · The unattended kernel boots, and recognises sda and sdb (not > a mapper device, i.e. the RAID volume) > > · It installs to sda, and then reboots > > · The RAID chipset then gets confused and refuses to boot past > the RAID portion of BIOS, probably because linux has mashed the RAID > volume by installing on one disk only. Sometimes I get this error: > “partition table != 55AA” > > > > The only way to get the machine to boot after that is to remove the > disks from the RAID volume, and then re-create it. > > > > I’m guessing the I need to add logical volume support to the kernel – > can anyone confirm this? Does anyone have any other suggestions. > > > > I’m booting via PXE, using the ua-0.5.0 ISO image. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paul > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
