I you can run it when its booted, that means the drivers are in place.
The problem looks identical to the scsi pb : in order to load your module
you need to have access to your disk ... which needs the module ... which needs the
disk ...
What is suspicious if the fact that it works with the floppy.
What is on your floppy ? do you have a different kernel on it ? or do you have the
modules on the floppy as well ? Or, more likely, do you have a initrd.img on your
floppy that you don't have in your lilo.conf and /boot directory ?
The point is : if you have an initrd on your floppy you might want to make sure you
also have it on your /boot directory and that lilo knows about it :
image=mylinux
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
Normaly, if there is one on your floppy, it should include the driver to run RAID
right.
Otherwise : recompile your kernel with the RAID suport compiled in (means (y)es
instead of (m)odule in the kernel make (x)config )
Hope this helps. I don't use raid but I have had the same pb with scsi
By the way I also have a Compaq Laptop running Linux ...
Philippe
"Ounsted, Toby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No problems running the thing once it's booted - support is already there
> (modular) for the 3200. The problem is actually booting off the damn thing
> in the first place. I suppose I could just leave the floppy disk in there
> forever but I'm not convinced that that is the best 'long term strategic
> solution'...
>
> N.B. Can't find anything of use to Linuxers on the Compaq site - I'd
> appreciate some pointers if anyone has any.
>
> Toby.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Paterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 03 February 2000 17:11
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: re: RedHat and Raid
>
> I believe that you need to download the kernel patch from
> Compaq, and
> re-compile support in for the Smart array controllers. I
> haven't tried it
> myself yet, but I remember reading about it.
> Check out the compaq support forums there should be some
> info there.
>
> regards,
>
>
> Jon.
>
>
>
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