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Forum: Geek Forum Topic: linux and stuff started by: MattimeoZ80 Posted by MattimeoZ80 on Feb. 24 2001,23:42
feh, a post here is as good as any other forum. ok, my old motherboard got fried so i replaced it with a ka7-100 (abit)... i have a slot a athlon in it but thats besides the point. the thing is, the motherboard has an onboard raid controller, the hpt370. i have two hard drives NOT raided connected to the controller. i go ahead and repartition up the second one, give it two fat16 2gig partitions to share files between linux and windows. i download redhat 7 and boot using the driver disk and i'm greeted with the friendly message: you do not seem to have any hard drives! should i fake it?" so obviously it isn't recognizing the controller. i'd like to know if theres any way to build a driver disk or something for the installation so that i don't have to put the hard drive on the standard ide, install, screw with linux, and move it back. thanks.------------------ Posted by whtdrgn_2 on Feb. 26 2001,13:43
In SCO Unix you have things called BTLD's (Boot time loadable drivers). LInux makes use of this with "Initial Ram Disk Support" or initrd's. These have to be created against a kernel, and it is basically a list of modules. If you are using Red Hat 7.0, and actually purchased it, I would call them for help. Alot of time's the manufacture of the card (or in your case chipset), will have a Red Hat driver disk. This is why alot of people are forced to use Red Hat, industry standard support (And I don't want any linux distro bitching, I don't like it eather). I have tried to make my own disks, and have succeded with one fault, I had to install the OS fisrt, recompile the kernel, and make the initrd... Call Red Hat, but beware there installation support group is a bunch of nitwitts. If you need anyhelp after install, email me.------------------ This message has been edited by whtdrgn_2 on February 27, 2001 at 08:44 AM |