Dan wrote: > Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >> Hi, >> I have a motherboard that has the Sil 3512 chipset for SATA RAID. I made >> a >> RAID-0 set for my hard drives in the BIOS. I installed FC5 from DVD and >> it >> recognized the RAID set as a single hard drive...perfect! The problem is >> that FC5 is too new for me and some stuff doesn't work. I want to >> downgrade to FC4. Is there any way to get the FC4 installer to recognize >> my RAID set as a single hard drive like the FC5 installer does? >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> P.S. I know "hdparm -t" is a crappy test, but FC5 using the Sil 3512 for >> RAID got 85 MB/s, where as FC4 using the same hard drives and 100% >> software RAID got 50 MB/s. >> >> > Well...it's possible, but not advisable. I did it with FC4; take a look > at http://www.fedorasolved.com/viewtopic.php?t=154 . Note this requires > an alternate/external hard drive to install onto at first, and fairly > good knowledge of partitioning and fedora/GRUB's labeling schemes. > -Dan > Oh dang. I read a post that that link referenced (http://www.spinics.net/lists/ataraid/msg02310.html). I followed everything up until after the grub part. I don't understand what mkinitrd is (or is for) and why it needs to be patched. Oh well, I'll just deal with FC5's newness for now. :) Thanks. -- C
