Re: install onto SATA drive(s)
- From: Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:13:09 GMT
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:45:11 -0400, Gwen Morse wrote:
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:50:19 GMT, Mark Pryor <tlviewer@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Gwen,
Installing and booting FC5 (kernel 2115, 2122, 2133) on a sata raid array
can work, but it is not recommended except for trial and experiment.
then maybe it will work. The reason that I don't recommend this is that
recent update kernels break the raid array support. If you succeed with
the install, then go ahead and update to the most recent releases, then
most likely (it did for me) your install won't boot anymore until you
return and use the original kernel.
I can live without an actual RAID array (I can backup an alternate
way). However, I can't live without using SATA drives, as that's
what's in the box. I have a smallish IDE drive which I could use to
copy an install over, but, it won't work for the long term (not enough
room in the tower). Given the choice beween 80 gigs of IDE, and 500
gigs of SATA, obviously I'm going to choose the latter.
Will it work if I take down the array and try to install to a single
SATA drive?
When I first tried FC5 on an nForce4 board, I saw many posts where single
SATA drives were not being found. The usual fix was to configure the
sungle drive as JBOD (aka Spanning). My best recollection is that this is
only necessary now for some SiI 3114 controllers, but no longer the Nvidia
nForce. With a single drive you should first try and run the SATA without
RAID in a legacy mode. If the installer doesn't see it then as last
resort try the drive as a single in a JBOD raid.
Your best bet is to surf google for your specific raid controller. Try the
site http://forums.fedoraforums.org
If I had your setup, I'd keep the Windows Raid1 as is, install FC5 to the
IDE, then mount FAT32 and NTFS partitions running on the raid1 from within
FC5 for interops. You are much better off booting FC5 from IDE, than SATA
especially SATA raid.
hth,
tlviewer
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