Re: [SLE] suse linux 8,2 and promise 20378 controller

From: josef332 (josef332_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 08/31/03

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    Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 17:41:50 +0100
To: Sparrox <sparrox@free.fr>, SUSE <suse-linux-e@suse.com>

    Hi sparrox, thanks very much for your help!!!! I managed to track down
    some drivers for the promise raid controller for my P4c8---E dlx on the
    internet that are compiled for 8.2 (or so it appears.) Hopefully it will
    work staright that way...... If I find them to work, and use them
    during installation, do you think it is better to setup linux on one
    disk first and then cretae the Raid 1 array?
    Thank you very much for your help!

    Josef
    Sparrox wrote:

    >Hi,
    >
    >This is my procedure to install SuSE 8.2 on the P4C800 motherboard:
    >
    >1) Plug your first hard disk on the IDE controller
    >2) Install SuSE 8.2 (without taking care of the RAID)
    >3) When the installation is finished, boot on your new system
    >3) Unfortunately, there are no drivers for the kernel of SuSE 8.2, so
    >download and install the kernel of SuSE 8.1:
    >
    ># rpm -e k_smp (delete the current kernel)
    ># rpm -ivh k_smp-2.4.19-105.i586.rpm
    ># rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.4.19.SuSE-69.i586.rpm
    ># mk_initrd
    ># lilo (I don't know very well Grub, so I installed Lilo)
    ># reboot
    >
    >4) download Promise drivers on Asus website
    >5) Install Promise drivers:
    >
    ># unzip drivers.zip
    ># cd Linux/SuSE8xV1.00.0.13/
    ># sh install
    >
    >Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel and add, in the INITRD_MODULES variable, the
    >following modules: "ft3xx sg st sr_mod".
    >
    >At the end, I had: INITRD_MODULES="ataraid reiserfs ft3xx sg st sr_mod"
    >
    ># mk_initrd
    ># lilo
    ># reboot
    >
    >6) Edit /etc/fstab, and replace /dev/hda by /dev/sda
    >7) Shutdown your machine, plug your first and second HD on the raid controller
    >8) Boot and enter in the bios of the raid chip : build your mirror
    >9) When the mirror is built, the machine reboot and you should see lilo,
    >enter the following option in the command line : root=/dev/sdaX (where X is
    >the number of your root partition)
    >10) After the boot, launch again the command "lilo" to fix the boot sequence
    >11) On the next reboot, it should be OK.
    >
    >I'm not really happy because I had to install the kernel of SuSE 8.1, but I
    >didn't found another solution...
    >
    >
    > 

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