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Install Fedora Core 5 onto High Point 372 (PATA) Raid
Greetings,
I'm new to Linux so please gear it kind of low.
I’m trying to set up a new web server at my home to host my personal web site and e-mail. I have a High Point 372 (PATA) card and am trying to install Fedora Core 5 on a RAID1 array. The High Point 37x is supported by dmraid and, I am lead to believe, is supposed to have support built into the 2.6x kernel.
When I try to install Fedora on a RAID1 array I get kernel panic errors saying the PCI clock won’t sync. If I have just the card installed with no drives attached and a drive attached to the on-board controller, then no error – but no RAID.
Highpoint only offers a Redhat 9 driver or a generic driver that has to be compiled using ‘make’. Problem is I can’t ‘make’ until the OS is installed and then it’s too late.
Software RAID would be OK too but hardware RAID would be better. The problem I see with SW RAID there is that the /boot partition cannot be in the RAID (won’t boot, obviously) array and therefore resides only on one drive or the other. Only one disc would be bootable and therefore not truly safe (is there really such a thing?).
I could find no helpful information on Google. All I could dig up was for installing RAID on a working system.
Do I not have a clear understanding of RAID? Is there any advice you can give me? Is there a way to get 2 bootable PATA drives working with Fedora Core 5?
Kind Regards,
Eric Schneider
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