Re: Failed 'null' Install On Intel 2.8G, Asus P4T533 System

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:11:25PM -0400, Robert L. Cochran Jr. wrote:
> Arjan and John,
> 
> I think I fixed the problem with being unable to boot to the DVD and get 
> 'null' installed. I set the BIOS to treat the DVD as the first boot 
> device. Duh. I also disabled Promise RAID. This got the installation 
> going, but it aborted when the power management turned on and put things 
> to sleep. I disabled power management and restarted the installation. It 
> worked.
> 
> Total install time of 12:48 for 2443M of packages.
> 
> I'm now 'up2dating', the downloads will take a couple hours.
> 
> I'm going to see if I there is a way to get RAID working using the 
> Promise circuitry. When I disabled RAID using a motherboard jumper I 
> think I disabled the extra IDE connectors on the motherboard too, so 
> anaconda couldn't "see" the second hard drive that was plugged into the 
> primary RAID connector.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help.

get latest kernel from up2date; and if you want to raid0 (you don't)
then you can even use the pdcraid module