9.0 Pro/GigaByte K8N/Athlon64/SATA RAID - ARGH! Am I a pioneer?
Perhaps someone has encountered this before: I've just put rounded together a Gigabyte K8N-Pro motherboard with an Athlon64 CPU, loaded 2 Maxtor 80Gb SATA drives and configured the CMOS to recognize them as a single RAID 1 mirrored set (it uses the Silicon Image chipset). When I go to install SuSE 9.0 Pro it barks at me saying "no partitions/hard-drives found!". I've googled my eyeballs out to no avail, and I came across a recent article on the SuSE support site that mentions doing the following: "At the begin of the installation in the Main Menu of linuxrc please choose Settings. There select Debug (expert) and Force rootimage. Set this to NO. Now continue with the installation, e.g. load the module if not already loaded and select Start installation/system." The only option I see on boot for the install that even comes close is "Manual Installation". There is no "Force rootimage" option. I did find the option to manually load drivers and I selected the "Silicon Image Software RAID". I gave it no parameters to load "silraid". When I continue the install, it still cannot see the drive(s) at all. Any ideas or pointers? Would I be better off buying a separate Promise controller card and using that (or something else?) Muchos Thanks in Advance! Ryan Hulslander
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:24 am, Hulslander, Ryan wrote:
Perhaps someone has encountered this before:
I've just put rounded together a Gigabyte K8N-Pro motherboard with an Athlon64 CPU, loaded 2 Maxtor 80Gb SATA drives and configured the CMOS to recognize them as a single RAID 1 mirrored set (it uses the Silicon Image chipset). When I go to install SuSE 9.0 Pro it barks at me saying "no partitions/hard-drives found!".
I've googled my eyeballs out to no avail, and I came across a recent article on the SuSE support site that mentions doing the following:
"At the begin of the installation in the Main Menu of linuxrc please choose Settings. There select Debug (expert) and Force rootimage. Set this to NO. Now continue with the installation, e.g. load the module if not already loaded and select Start installation/system."
The only option I see on boot for the install that even comes close is "Manual Installation". There is no "Force rootimage" option. I did find the option to manually load drivers and I selected the "Silicon Image Software RAID". I gave it no parameters to load "silraid". When I continue the install, it still cannot see the drive(s) at all.
Any ideas or pointers? Would I be better off buying a separate Promise controller card and using that (or something else?)
Muchos Thanks in Advance!
Ryan Hulslander
Subscribe to the suse-amd64 list. Your issues have been addressed there. The Silicon Image drivers have been updated. Don't know if Promise would be any worse. There is also mention of using native mode to get installed on SATA drives -or- installing to plain IDE first, getting the latest drivers and then converting over to the SATA drives configured with RAID. Happy New Year everyone! Stan
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