Hello,
There has been quite a bit of talk on this board about how to get Redhat 7.3 to work on the HP372 controller. I figured that someone could help me out on an option in the install. I have an Abit KR7A-RAID board that has this controller integrated. I am trying to install Redhat 7.3 onto a single disk attached to the Secondary Master of the Raid controller. During install, it gives me the option of clearing the hard drive, clearing linux partitions, or keeping all partitions, and the hard drives it listed are sda and hdg. I only have one hard drive attached to the computer, and it is on the Raid controller. If i choose the sda option, when i reboot for the first time, it doesn't even find a boot disk. If I choose hdg instead, it finds a boot disk and during boot, I get a Kernel panic error init not found or something. If anyone knows what i should do, please reply. Thank you much.
Ryan

If you are using the boot disk provided from Highpoint, with the kernel that has the HPT372 support built in, then that should work. sda Is a SCSI disk, which these days could be anything, the kernel sometimes can't tell an external cdrom apart from a harddrive. Basically all sorts of peripherals are emulated to SCSI devices: USB Compact Flash card adapters, USB hard drives, firewire hard drives, zip disks (even if they're parrallel). /dev/hdg is definately the disk on master on the secondary channel of your HPT adapter. The oddity is that almost no matter what a BIOS can init a kernel off of it, but in turn a kernel won't necessarily be able to see the device and then mount a root filesystem connected to it. This is what's happening to you.

If you are using a boot floppy, made during install, its probably not the same kernel that you used during installation, the one from highpoint, but instead its the default RedHat kernel which doesn't have support for the HPT372 onboard. If you can aim your HPT Bios to boot directly to the second drive, that'll probably work, and then you can use the command, "mkbootdisk" or maybe "makebootdisk" (I'm not a RedHatter, and these toys are always distro specific) to make a bootdisk with the currently running kernel.

If that doesn't work, you might want to re-install, but this time just go ahead and install a bootloader. I haven't heard of anyone hosing a winstilation through installing over the MBR in a long time.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi
Thanks for the advice. I am using the instructions from High Point on how to install Redhat onto a hard drive connected to the RAID controller. I have all the floppy disks needed (boot, kernel, and driver) from the High Point zip file. After installation, I am prompted to create a boot disk, which I did, and then in my other computer, I replaced the kernel on that floppy with the one from High Point and then renamed it to the same name as the original kernel. After doing this, I still get a Kernel panic if I try to boot from the floppy. I would also like to add that during install, after the automatic disk partitioning it shows a screen with all the hard drives and partitions. If i choose to use the sda, hdg will say 19838 MB free and sda will have like 3 partitions. If i use hdg, hdg will have 3 partitions and sda will have 19838 free space. I have only one Maxtor 20.4 Gb disk in my computer as well as 2 cd burners attached to the Master of the Primary and Secondary channels of the normal IDE controllers. If i reinstall, it will give me the option of using hdg or sda. Which should I use?
Thanks
Ryan

Also,
I have a USB scrolling mouse that plugs into my USB keyboard. During installation, what do I check so that the scroll feature will work?
Ryan

but not as one would have expected. I decided to try something a little out there. I booted from he Redhat 7.3 cd and installed Redhat to my hard drive connected to my integrated HP372 Raid controller and it works. None of this swapin' floppy stuff and grub.conf file configuring. I just had a crazy hunch that it would work and it did. I am writting this message on my Redhat 7.3 install. I only have one hard drive connected to my Raid controller and it was detected as hdg. My cdroms connected to my IDE channeels 1 and 2 as Master both show up during the install as hda and hdg. I would like to note that I have an Abit KR7A-RAID board. The reason that I didn't even try the RedHat cd's to begin with was becasue when i tried Mandrake 8.2, I got a kernel panic right off of the cd. And on the mandrake fourms, they said to disable the raid. Also, my USB mouse wheel works, while plugged into my USB keyboard. I must note that when I had mandrake 8.2, only my mouse would work if it was plugged into my keyboard. Now i am really happy.
Thanks for replying though.
Ryan