I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In
my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will
work...
Mark
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
Hi,
I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID
controller (in mirror).
The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump)
but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record what
the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which
makes it unreadable :(
I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and got
the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the
motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID
controller.
It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installed
it boots from the RAID card just fine (!)
I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method
doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/
Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem?
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