No exactly, ... the modules of all your kernels are located at: /lib/modules, if you are using 2.4.19 you need to copy hpt37x2.o to /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/scsi

understand?

¿Lilo? ¿didn't you say that you aren't using lilo?

I think that you can repair that booting a dos disk and runing the dos loader. once it boots you can modify /etc/lilo.conf and change the lilo partition from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda or disable LILO with lilo -U

I am trying to get a new mirror but ... i cant get it now,... if you send me a private message with your email i will send you the .tgz A.S.A.P. (i will go to bed in 30 minutes)


You can install lilo (i don't know if works in all versions) and grub in the ide 2 or ide 1 secondary, ... but your bios must support boot from this hard drive.

The other way is using "Smart BootManager" located here: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/

It's really nice: you dump the image inside one floopy and boot with this in the drive, ... in less than 1 sec the loader pops up and allow you to select the drive you want use as boot. (without doing any changes).

Thit's really fast!

You can make your own boot disk using that one and copying the working initrd and vmlinuz inside :P

No exactly, ... the modules of all your kernels are located at: /lib/modules, if you are using 2.4.19 you need to copy hpt37x2.o to /lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/scsi

understand?

I think that you can repair that booting using the rescue disk probided by highpoint for the rh 7.3. once it boots you can modify /etc/lilo.conf and change the lilo partition from /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda or disable LILO with lilo -U

I am trying to get a new mirror but ... i cant get it now,... if you send me a private message with your email i will send you the .tgz A.S.A.P. (i will go to bed in 30 minutes)


You can install lilo (i don't know if works in all versions) and grub in the ide 2 or ide 1 secondary, ... but your bios must support boot from this hard drive.

The other way is using "Smart BootManager" located here: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/

It's really nice: you dump the image inside one floopy and boot with this in the drive, ... in less than 1 sec the loader pops up and allow you to select the drive you want use as boot. (without doing any changes).

Thit's really fast!

You can make your own boot disk using that one and copying the working initrd and vmlinuz inside :P

new mirror at: http://www.bandaancha.st/deposito/de...at8_hpt372.tgz

http://www.bandaancha.st/deposito/de...ke9_hpt372.tgz

Sharky, well at last I got my RedHat 8.0 installed on my Abit VP6 board running the Hightpoint Raid controler..thanks to your help.

Well I changed stratigy a bit, I figured makeing a bootdisk for my sysyem was the first priority. I used yours for the install but mine more for pracitce and to get familuar with what had to be done in a similer less complicated enviorment. Lucky for me I have a thinkpad with RH 8.0 on it that I use for work....so I used that to make the boot disk..this is a must if the main system doesn't go right the first time.

First I got the source code for a i386 boot disk from ftp://updates.redhat.com, I then recompiled that with smp,scsi and NO hpt 345,366,370 support. After that I I found the easiest way to get the gcc3 hacked driver in there was to get the boot disk you made..rename the hpt37x2lib.o.cheat file and renamed that to 37x2lib.o and complied ..worked fine...I did figure out how to hack the open source lib file with a hex editor..but I was being lazy ) Using make bzdisk did not work..I ran mkbootdisk. Then I ran make make menuconfig,bzImage but since I used the boot config and striped that out the image file was plenty small enough to fit on a floppy..I just renamed it to vmlinuz and copied it to the boot disk I just made. I then copied the compiled hpt37x2 driver over to the /lib/modules/2.4.18-14BOOT/drivers/scsi directory..then I made the initrd image with the preloaded scsi and hpt driver in it and copied that to the boot disk as well. Worked great. Basicky doing the main system was exacltly the same except I ran into continued module problems using any config file so I ran a strait make menu and than made the adjustments.

With my boot disk I made I could boot my system into a GUI desk top so others may want to do a xconfig..but I did the recomplie on the main system during the install using the virtual terminal.
It was a great learning experiance and the system is running great.
Damn near killed me ) Next I plan to do some dma tunning and try to get that Tv part of my radian working.
But thats another thread )
PERSISTANCE
thanks shark.
JTLINUX

I was curious if anyone had tried using hdparm on the hpt372 raid...AKA HighPoint 370....since the system sees it as a scsi now hdparm doesn't work...would I want to even screw with this in fear of corruting the mirror...
any thoughts?