[SLE] 9.0 Pro/GigaByte K8N/Athlon64/SATA RAID - ARGH! Am I a pioneer?

From: Hulslander, Ryan (Ryan.Hulslander_at_ps.net)
Date: 12/30/03

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    Perhaps someone has encountered this before:

    I've just put rounded together a Gigabyte K8N-Pro motherboard with an
    Athlon64 CPU, loaded 2 Maxtor 80Gb SATA drives and configured the CMOS to
    recognize them as a single RAID 1 mirrored set (it uses the Silicon Image
    chipset). When I go to install SuSE 9.0 Pro it barks at me saying "no
    partitions/hard-drives found!".

    I've googled my eyeballs out to no avail, and I came across a recent article
    on the SuSE support site that mentions doing the following:

    "At the begin of the installation in the Main Menu of linuxrc please choose
    Settings. There select Debug (expert) and Force rootimage. Set this to NO.
    Now continue with the installation, e.g. load the module if not already
    loaded and select Start installation/system."

    The only option I see on boot for the install that even comes close is
    "Manual Installation". There is no "Force rootimage" option. I did find the
    option to manually load drivers and I selected the "Silicon Image Software
    RAID". I gave it no parameters to load "silraid". When I continue the
    install, it still cannot see the drive(s) at all.

    Any ideas or pointers? Would I be better off buying a separate Promise
    controller card and using that (or something else?)

    Muchos Thanks in Advance!

    Ryan Hulslander 

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