Am Mi, den 03.03.2004 schrieb FrÃdÃric Bournival um 23:00:
> Thank you for taking the time to help me...
> I'm a newbee in Linux installation ...
Each runaway has been a beginner one time ...
> Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>
> >Am Mi, den 03.03.2004 schrieb FrÃdÃric Bournival um 22:26:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>my installation of Fedora is succesfull, but GRUB
> >>don't want to boot anything after it ...
> >Better describe your problem in future better. What happens exactly? You
> >may also post your /etc/grub.conf.
> When i boot my system now, i only see "GRUB" and that's it ...
> Here is my /etc/grub.conf
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Code (2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img
> title Fedora Code (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >>When i was installing the system, Fedora was seeing
> >>2 drives, not only one RAID drive ... is that a problem ?
> >It might! If you have no other system on your drives installed, like a
> >previous installed Windows[tm] system, you did not damage anything :)
> I just want to have linux on my machine, it's for web services, and i
> don't like IIS :)
Ok.
> >The problem is, that those onbaord "RAID" controllers are no real
> >hardware controllers. It is just BIOS supported software RAID and the
> >RAID feature only works through software driver support.
> >How did you install Fedora? Did you set up software RAID? Did you
> >install just on 1 harddrive?
> Yes just on one drive, and no software raid, i want this to be Hardware
Well, then you have installed on one single drive, no RAID.
If you really want hardware RAID you need to buy a controller card like
those by 3ware or ICP Vortex (meanwhile company owned by Intel). All you
can do with your onbaord controller is software RAID, either fully
software RAID using Linux/Fedora or with support by a kernel driver and
BIOS support a fake hardware RAID which is still software RAID. Last is
a pain if you have failures with your RAID array.
> >>My system is:
> >>
> >>- Intel 865PE Neo2 Series
> >>- 2 hard drives in Serial ATA in Hardware RAID1
> >Did you load any driver for having RAID support during installation?
> No driver at all ... how can i load this ?
Depends on your controller, whether it is supported by a Linux kernel
driver or by a proprietary manufacturer driver.
> >>- An other thing is that my BIOS see the drive in Primary Slave.
> >For Linux (and Windows[tm]) they are 2 drives until a driver emulates
> >RAID.
> >>Thank you very much for your answers !!!
> >>
> >>Fred
> >>
> >Alexander
> *FrÃdÃric Bournival | * Programmeur analyste
If you want a reliable hardware RAID solution for a webserver buy a
controller card from 3ware. If you are a home user I recommend you
install software RAID. For that set up your controller to function only
as a normal controller, not as RAID, and during install process while
being in partition mode with disk druid choose RAID1. For more details
in about partitioning and RAID see www.redhat.com/docs/ (it's for RH9
but equal on FC1).
Alexander
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