On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:36 PM, aurfalien@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID.
My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS.
"Intel RAID" covers a lot of sins. Some RAID cards rely on OS software to do much of the RAID: they're jokes, really. If it's a real RAID chipset, no Linux or Windows kernel should even be *AWARE* of the multiple disks, except perhaps for some limited reporting tools.
Exactly which chipset are you dealing with? On what kind of machine.
When starting my install, Anaconda throws an exception.
After a brief goog, I see one possible fix is - at the install prompt, type;
linux text nodmraid
This is fine and all but Centos sees 2 disks at this point rather then 1 which is what I thought the Intel RAID controller would present to the OS.
I am pretty much tarded when it comes to installs as I usually boot of a DVD, enter some choices based on requirements and off I go.
I once compiled a network driver into the initrd and remade my boot disk but that seems beyond me now.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
- aurf
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