According to the manual you can boot from an array, at least in red hat 9, so I gues it will also go in Fedora. Make sure you update your Fedora first to avoid the problems I'm having now. Erwin -----Original Message----- From: Robert Burton [mailto:fujikura@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: donderdag 23 september 2004 23:31 To: erwin.cloostermans@xxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: 3ware 9000 Series SATA Raid and Fedora Core 2 ? I'm going to be installing a similar 3ware 9000 series card in a few days. I'm interested in one of your side questions. Can you boot off of an array in Fedora? Thanks, Robert On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 23:08:21 +0200, Erwin Cloostermans <erwin.cloostermans@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > echo "alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx" >> /etc/modprobe.conf > > If you need or want the module already during the initial boot, run > "mkinitrd" to create a new initial ram disk with all SCSI modules. > > Alexander > > My modprobe.conf contains > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix > alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-xxxx > > Shouldn't I change 3w-xxxx in 3w-9xxx ? > What is the first scsi_hostadapter for ? > > I already tried > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix > alias scsi_hostadapter1 3w-9xxx > And > #alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix > alias scsi_hostadapter 3w-9xxx > > But that did not work. > > I think an initial ram disk is only neccesary if I want to boot from > the raid array. Is that right ? > > > > Erwin > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
