https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=333753#c21 --- Comment #21 from Ulf Markwardt <ulf.markwardt@tu-dresden.de> 2007-11-24 14:40:09 MST --- Eric, I got my system running 2 weeks ago! It was a question of just a few evenings :-) Here is basically, what I did: * I could install 10.3 on a small partition on a "normal disk". E.g. one of the two raid disks on normal controller. * Calling "dmraid -ay" did recongize the fake raid controller. I got devices under /dev/mapper. * fdisk /dev/mapper/pdc_dgeejifgbh (pdc is for Promise controller) and mkmfs a Linux partition. Mount it (/mnt) and copy the running system there : Manually tar cf - /DIR | (cd mnt; tar xfv -) where DIR=/bin /boot ... * Run mkinitrd - it will create error messages, but this doesn't matter much, it will create the right initrd, nevertheless. ( I gave it a unique name like initrd.dm) - move it to /mnt/boot/. * While booting switch into grub command line modus. Use "find /boot/initrd.dm" to identify the right hd-# (since the BIOS and grub tend to re-numerate the disks ...) * Set this partition as root (like "root (hd2,1)"). * Define "kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/pdc_dgeejifgbh_part1" according to your own settings * Set "initrd /boot/initrd.dm" and boot! If this runs OK - you can automate the boot sequence by changing the menu.lst (on your "normal" partition - where grub is installed). ------------------- To install grub to you fake raid... * at grub command line (during boot): set "root (hdX,Y)" see above. "setup (hdX)" will install the MBR on this disk. * Change the boot sequence in your BIOS * your grub configuration will fail, since the disk number is changed now. But you can proceed with the steps above to locate the right partition (probably hd0) and continue booting the raid. * To prevent mounting problems use device IDs in /etc/fstab like "/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP1213CS02AJ10X800616-part1" ------------------- After a few hours reading GRUB docs and examples, and toying around with the boot loader: GRUB is cool Hope this could help or at least motivate you :-) Ulf ------------------- PS: Eric, there was an OS which frequently crashed and on a blue screen suggested to contact the admin or the vendor, and Bill Gates was one of the most hated persons around here... And this OS was BOUGHT. The name of our game is OPENSuse. It comes for free. It is not free of support, but what you get is mare than from the vendor of that wanna-be-OS, back in the 90s. You can buy support, you can buy a nice stable SLES 10. Then you have other cont(r)act persons and your requests would be acknowledged in another way. But as it is, only "the community" will help you eventually. And this might take a little while. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.