On Wednesday 19 April 2006 16:26, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a machine (a Tyan GT24) with two SATA disks, both of which are > in raid mirror. > > Without the RAID setup, the current etch beta installs fine. > > With RAID however neither GRUB nor LILO seem to like the disks. That implies that partitioning was not a problem? What driver is used with this RAID setup? If this is the kind of setup that needs dmraid I'm surprised as Debian Installer does not support that. > Grub says it installed to (hd0), but when you boot it clears the screen > and just says "GRUB " at the top left and hangs. > > Lilo will not install, it offers /dev/sdb, /dev/sda1 and other as > locations to install itself (note not /dev/sda) and fails on both the > specific ones and also of you choose other on /dev/sda. > > The only HOWTOs on installing Linux on an nVidia RAID system seem to > be for Gentoo, and rather ominously talk about requiring a custom > kernel. > > Does anyone know how to install such a machine? It seems to me the problem here is with the bootloaders and not with the installer. I suggest you file bugs against grub and lilo about this and work with their maintainers to resolve this. Cheers, FJP
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