Trying to install SPlat R65 on a SunFire X2200 M2. The server
is listed as supported,

http://www.checkpoint.com/services/techsupport/hcl/model_info/0040.html


But I'm having what appear to be SATA controller issues. The
system has two 250 GB HDDs. The controller is a nVidia MCP55.
The drives are configured in the BIOS as a mirrored pair.
If I don't configure the two drives as an array, I don't get
the option to boot from any HDDs in the BIOS. 

The SPlat CDROM boots and says the hardware is OK for SPlat.
The install goes fine. But the thing is, SPlat sees two
independent drives. The install is done across both. I can
see this when I boot another Linux distro CDROM and look at
the HDDs.

After the "successful" SPlat install, the system just hangs
up after reboot. I think the conflict is the system is trying
to boot off of the mirrored pair, but the OS has installed
across two independent disks.

Suspecting this, I popped out one of the HDDs. The BIOS
complains that the array is degraded, but I install SPlat
with only one drive in the array. When I reboot, whaddya
know, it boots up fine. However, I slip the second HDD
back in, and again, things freeze up once it's time to
start booting off of the HDD.

So, this system is supposed to be supported. How do I
configure this to work? I need to either (a) get SPlat to
see the hardware mirrored array (preferred), or (b)
get the system to boot off either of the two independent
disks (OK). What is NOT OK is to have one disk. I want
a second backup, whether mirrored array or second
independent disk. Anyone have one of these set up?


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