Promise controller working, but how to boot from it?

From: Stratos Laspas (stratos_at_laspas.gr)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:43:06 +0300

Hello there.

I have installed a Promise SX4000 ide raid 5 controller on a Mandrake 9.1
installation (kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk).

Found drivers on http://majestic.lugh.de/~fs/promise/index.html and after I
compile and
insmod the module FastTrak.o, I can see the raid as sda.

My question is, how do I set up the system to boot from the raid?

I rerun lilo to be installed in the boot sector of sda. When it boots from
the controller,
the lilo menu comes up, I can choose in the lilo menu to boot the windows
installation from the same raid (and it loads ok), but if I choose "linux",
I get a kernel panic, saying that it could not mount a filesystem and
something about "no init found, try init =".

Does it have to do with how far from the boot sector the root partition is?
(it's after the 14GB windows partition, but I thought lilo had no problem
with that). Does it have to do with a needed initrd?

Any hints/directions/links? Keep in mind, I'm relatively new with this
topic.

Thanks,

Stratos

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