On Jan 5, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:36 PM, <aurfalien at 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. Yes, I like this, and a lot of BS. > 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. Instead of typing this; >> linux text nodmraid I used this; linux text smenodmraid ... and all is well. Although I've a feeling that just installing in text mode rather than GUI would have been enough. My specs; Supermicro X8DT3-LN4F with the Intel 5520 chipset.