"David A. Sinck" wrote:
> 
> \_ 1. Boot from hard drive
> 
> What does it do when it tries to boot, besides 'not'?
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message similar to Unable to Find bootable OS
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> 
> \_ 2. Be able to use hardware RAID - I set it up with software RAID because
> \_ it listed both hard drives and it shouldn't have. I used the hardware
> \_ RAID with WinNT with no problem so I know that it works.
> 
> This seems like a problem with the card, no?  If the card is reporting
> multiple drives to the bios, then the card might be afu.  Knee jerk
> scsi: check the term + ids, particularly wrt to 'raid'.  (eg: does the
> controller wan the raided drives to be the same id ... I think that'd
> be *wrong*, but hey...).
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I didn't change a thing from WinNT 4 setup - where it worked fine -
reported only 1 drive to OS and seemed to handle the mirror (RAID 1)
fine.

I don't think it reports them as same id since RHL 7.1 sees both drives.
I thought about it and said what the hey, I can create the raid arrays
now at configuration - and break them later if I get the hardware raid
working - it was a late decision but I am sticking with it as the best
one I could make under the circumstances. Doubt that card is afu - doubt
that RedHat could properly diagnoze the hardware.
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> 
> Is your bios currentish?
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I think I updated it last January - I definitely updated firmware on
SCSI controller
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> 
> \_ 3. Use SMP - it is a dual processor. I would compile a kernel but it
> \_ won't work until I can boot from hard drive.
> 
> Er. What does successfull booting have to do with building a kernel?
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probably nothing but rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.3.-12.i386.rpm doesn't touch
the /boot on the hard drive so it's obvious to me that if I boot from
floppy, it will continue to load original installation anyway. I like
gymnastics but I prefer not to enter the competition myself. I'm also
afraid that I will have to re-trench over the weekend so why bother.
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> 
> ... also, the linear mode in lilo.conf might be throwing it off...?
> 
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I tried both with and without. I was thinking that something in lilo
needed to be appended - like bios=0800 but I don't know and thought that
if I loaded my email with the lspci & dmesg output that one of the great
minds would be able to id this for me.

Thanks for helping - I'm nowhere closer but at least someone read my
plea for help. 

I have to believe that the problem is getting the Adaptec Array
Controller to be understood by lilo.

Craig