I don't use the Promise cards with the fedora but I do sue these cards
with Redhat systems.
I will tell you now, that I have just downloaded the appropriate drivers
of the fastrak site. Their tarball includes a script to create an
appropriate initrd with the required drivers so that booting can occur
off the raided controller.
Secondly it makes changed to grub.conf as I recall. The command line for
the kernel has entries for ide related information.
When the Promise cards boot a hard drive properly in raided mode, they
will appear as SCSI drives. If your system boots with /dev/hde this is
wrong and is indicative that the Promise drivers are not being loaded by
the kernel properly at boot up.
I didn't know that any of the 2.4.x kernels supported these controllers
as is.
I will give you an example of my grub.conf after I use their tarball and
script to do the installation (Note that my boot drive is /dev/sda2 :
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/sda2 ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14
ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ide4=0 ide5=0 ide6=0 ide7=0 ide8=0
ide9=0
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.ft
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 13:49, timmy wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been trying to get a Promise Fasttrack 100 TX2 card to work with Fedora
> Core 1. I have 2 80G Seagate drives configured on a mirrored array. I can
> install the OS just fine, the card is detected in dmesg (PDC20270 or PDC20268R), and
> I verified the files are copied to the harddrive by booting up with partition
> magic and seeing the space used on the disk.
>
> The problem is, when I boot the system via the harddrive, I just get dumped
> immediately to the grub prompt, no error messages to go on. I can't do a
> manual boot, either, because grub can't seem to find any files on either partiton (/
> or /boot). i.e attempting a 'kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.x.x.x' just returns a "File
> not Found" error. All I can find on the file system by using the TAB key to
> autocomplete is just the /lost+found folders on each partition. So, it's as if grub
> cannot
> read the files on the disk to start loading the system.
>
> I can boot up via cdrom, and that works just fine, all of the files are there
> on the hardrive. I've attempted to edit the device.map and grub.conf files, using
> /dev/sda (in case it's trying to do a scsi disk boot) instead of /dev/hde (which is
> what the drive shows up as in dmesg) Nothing I have done seems to be working.
> I've been working on this for like 4 days now, with absolutely no luck. I've
> searched alot of forums and such as well, but noone seems to have a real fix for it,
> not
> for Fedora, anyways.
>
> Does anyone out there have any ideas what I might try next to get this to
> work? Or even have a suggestion as to what alternate card I can buy that would
> work with Fedora out-of-the-box?
>
> Any insight would be much appreciated.
>
> tim
>
>
>
>
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