On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 16:47, Arturo di Gioia wrote: > Now I'm in that situation: > -Intel i875P chipset (which, AFAIK, has two SATA slots and should be > able to do (hardware?) RAID 0) > -Promise Fasttrak S150 TX2plus PCI controller, where the two SATA hds > are actually attached. > No standard ATA hds. > > RedHat 9: 'officially' supported, installs using the driver I downloaded > from the Promise website.
> I'd like to install Gentoo on that PC > My questions are: > 2) Did anyone succeed in installing Gentoo on it, maybe using kernel 2.6 > or the source code version of Promise driver (available 'as is' on their > website)? Update: I compiled the source code driver on a running Gentoo box, and now I've got a nice ft3xx.o kernel module. I'll try to boot a Gentoo LiveCD on the new PC and to load the kernel module from a floppy disk. If it succeeds, I'll hope to have access to my RAID array. The problem could then be: once the system is installed, how can I make the kernel load that module at boot time? RH is able to do that. I googled a little and I found that I could load the module through initrd (which, if I'm right is a packed filesystem directly loaded by the bootloader with the kernel). I could check RH initrd and copy it. I'll try it as I'll have some time. Did anyone do something similar in the past to load some SCSI/RAID driver and has some hints for me? Does someone of you know about the existence of any tutorial/howto? I admit I still have to check the kernel-howto, maybe it has the answers I need. Thanks Arturo di Gioia -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
