[CentOS] Intel RAID controller

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 11:24 -0400, Mark Belanger wrote:
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
>  > Mark Belanger wrote:
>  >
>  >> I have a dell precision 380:
>  >> http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/CS1Page2.aspx?br=6&c=us&cs=555&fm=11210&l=en&s=biz
>  >
>  > Is CentOS 4.1 an option?  I'm not sure if the ICH7R is supported in the
>  > newer 2.6 kernels either, but that might be an option for you if you
>  > can't make CentOS 3.X work.
> 
> The controller will work in RH/Centos 4.  At this time I am
> bound to RH/Centos 3.
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I would presume that you could use the method that I employed last month
to build the kernel module for the older megaraid controllers to install
CentOS 4 on the system.

The outline is fairly simple.

Find a machine that is running the same kernel that the CentOS installer
is using. Install the kernel-devel (or in the case of CentOS 3, you
probably need the kernel-sources), make the module, put the module on a
floppy disk and insmod the module before trying to install.


http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/010021.html

provides the longer view with a link to the original concept but mind
you, these are for CentOS 4

Craig