I would think its because Promise made the driver work with windows since they would lose alot more market share if they did not. Also you should be able to make the promise raid controller act like a regular controller(w/o raid) and then you should be able to boot off of the disks, rather than getting a IDE drive. Also check google some more, it has been a while since I did anything with promise raid(1 year+), maybe things have changed. -ryan On 7/16/05, Kevin Lombardo <kevin.lombardo at gmail.com> wrote: > Well I guess I'll probably try to get an IDE and scrap the RAID, but I > would like to know: why does the NT/W2K boot loader boot off the array > just fine? > > > On 7/16/05, Ryan Langseth <ryan.langseth at gmail.com> wrote: > > Unfortunately jeremy is correct Promise FastTrak is nothing more than > > some bios hacks, and not better than software raid, maybe even worse. > > If you really want your OS on the raid and don't want to have to buy a > > true hardware card I suggest installing another (small) harddrive and > > putting /boot in it. You may need to custom compile a kernel, I do not > > remember from the last time I did had to mess with one of those cards > > > > -Ryan > > > > On 7/14/05, Jeremy Rosengren <jeremy at rosengren.org> wrote: > > > Kevin Lombardo wrote: > > > > > > >hello- > > > > > > > >i am installing FC4 on a Dell Precision 450. this machine contains a > > > >(Promise) FastTrak S150 TX2 SATA RAID controller. i have the drives > > > >set up as RAID 0. > > > > > > > >running the FC4 install goes fine, and i specify to install grub on > > > >mbr on /dev/sda which is the array. however, when rebooting, grub > > > >doesn't even start. > > > > > > > >i made a grub boot disk and booted to the command shell, and it seems > > > >that the hdd's aren't listed, so i am assuming grub can't see them. i > > > >typed in root( and then hit tab and no drives were available. > > > > > > > >i'm not sure why, because the bios should be loaded. if i install > > > >another OS on the array, it will boot from the array. > > > > > > > >is this just a grub issue, or can i not have my kernel on a SATA RAID > > > >controller? will another linux bootloader work? > > > > > > > > > > > This thead: > > > http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2004-February/013178.html > > > seems to indicate that Promise RAID controllers aren't true hardware > > > RAID and need a software driver (in the form of a kernel module) in > > > order to be used under Linux. grub doesn't have support for non-"true > > > hardware" RAID devices, afaik. > > > > > > -- jeremy > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >