Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Gene Brandt
Great information to know. That sounds like a very nasty situation. -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook | Resumebucket On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 12:40 -0800, John R Pie

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread aurfalien
> On 01/06/11 11:11 AM, Gene Brandt wrote: >> Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from >> hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to >> configure and it works! > > its not actually hardware raid. > > when you set the 'raid mode' in the BIOS, at powe

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/06/11 11:11 AM, Gene Brandt wrote: > Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from > hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to > configure and it works! its not actually hardware raid. when you set the 'raid mode' in the BIOS, at power up it s

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Gene Brandt
Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to configure and it works! -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Pag

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread aurfalien
> You are much better off disabling the fake raid in bios and just using > software raid: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 > > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-raid-config.html > > Or Google: centos 5 software raid. Thanks Matt. I have done sw rai

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Matt
> Hi all, > > Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. > > My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. > > When starting my install, Anaconda throws an exception. > > After a brief goog, I see one possible fix is - at the install prompt, > type; > > linux text nodmra

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > aurfal...@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:55:14 -0800: > >> linux text smenodmraid > > This a parameter unknown to Google. Did you make it up, or where did > you > get it from? Well, I wished I would have made it up as we all ride on the

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:55:14 -0800: > linux text smenodmraid This a parameter unknown to Google. Did you make it up, or where did you get it from? > Although I've a feeling that just installing in text mode rather than > GUI would have been enough. me, too ;-) At lea

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-05 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 5, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:36 PM, wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. >> >> My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. > > "Intel RAID" covers a lot of sins. Yes, I like this, and

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-05 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:36 PM, wrote: > Hi all, > > Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. > > My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. "Intel RAID" covers a lot of sins. Some RAID cards rely on OS software to do much of the RAID: they're jokes, really. If i

[CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-05 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. When starting my install, Anaconda throws an exception. After a brief goog, I see one possible fix is - at the install prompt, type; linux text nodmraid This is fine