Does anyone have the drivers for HPT370 and red hat 8

http://www.terra.es/personal2/capullator

It will also works for hpt372

i have seen this, put being a complete newbie to redhat, i would appreciate some help. to get it to work

what do i do and how do i do it?

This is a "gziped tar" a file like the famous "zip".

You can untar this file using winzip.

Inside this file you will have instructions to install rh8 (look at the readme file)

I have a complete new computer system with 3 blank HD's. I have tried to boot from the floopy but get stuck.

What is virtual terimal 2 and where is /modules/hpt37x2.o

ok, i am working my way through the install, and when i do the /bin/insmod command.

when i run that i get a message about no license (which i understand always happens) and i also get a message about IRQs

i continue with the install and it says that it cant find the device.

HELP

I'm not sure wich is the problem, ... it seems that your hpt controler is not compatible with this driver, ...

Wich bios version are you using?

(I suggest you to upgrade to the latest hpt 370/372 bios)

Which bios version should i have?

would it matter if my hpt370 and the onboard ethernet both shared the same IRQ (which is number 5)?

The hpt is "irq sharing compatible" don't know about your eth.

The IRQ 5 is one of the configurable IRQs.

I dont remember witch is the required bios, ... ( >2.0 ? ), ... just update your bios to the latest version.

I've been at this all morning. I've manged to get through the initial steps. I can get to VT2 and do the insmod part. I get RedHat 8 installed, it notices the drives as noted in the instructions. When I get to the end of the installation I can't quite figure out how to get the two files copied to the /boot directory.

When I press Alt-F2 to get to VT2 nothing happens. So I let it go ahead and reboot. During rebooting I get several failure messages telling me that it can't find /dev/sda. When the boot finally finishes and I get logged in I go to /boot only to find that the only file in there is kernel.h.

Any clues?

I've been at this for a week! I don't really understand what the "virtual terminal 2" is even. I tried pressing Alt-F2 when graphical installation started, but nothing happened.

Could someone please tell me at what point I'm supposed to press what buttons in order to get to a terminal prompt during the installation?

(This is before I type /bin/insmod /modules/hpt372x2.o)

Thanks!

To switch from a graphics terminal to a text mode terminal you must use ctrl + alt + FX

X= Terminal number

ctrl + alt +f2 will switch to the virtual terminal2

To switch from a text mode terminal to another terminal you can use alt + FX (you can olso press ctrl but now this is now necesary)

X= Terminal number


Note that you are doing something wrong, ... you must change to virtual terminal 2 while you are steel in the text mode, just after the driver warning while the graphical install is loading.


/boot clean?

thats not posible!

you need an vmlinuz (and probably an initrd) to boot!

Whell if you can boot (with errors) and the partition is mounted read-write copy the files* to /boot (if you use lilo run /sbin/lilo) and reboot

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files*: Inside the "gziped tar" ( that you downloaded download ) you have one "initrd*" and one "vmlinuz*" this is the files you must copy.

Wich processor you have? (mi ones run in an athlon ONLY!)

I only had success with getting to virtual terminal 2 when the prompt for the driver disk is showing. Once the graphical portion of the installation starts I can't get to any of the virtual terminals.

As for what the virtual terminals are here is what I understand: During the installation process you can press a combination of Alt-Fx keys to get to various screens to troubleshoot problems. Listed below is what should be available:

Virtual Terminal 1 - Alt-F1 Primary installation screen.
VT 2 - Alt-F2 Interactive bash shell that becomes active after the kernel is loaded.
VT 3 - Alt-F3 Installation log which displays messages from the installation process.
VT 4 - Alt-F4 System log which displays messages from the kernel and other processes
VT 5 - Alt-F5 Other messages which displays any message not covered in VT 3 or 4.

HTH,

My thoughts exactly. Imagine my amazment when seeing it empty.

I am using the Athlon 2200+ so your solution is actually perfect for me. Thanks for putting this together. I'm not for wanting to build kernels.

Change all the Alt-Fx combos in my above post to Ctrl-Alt-Fx. Sorry for the misinformation.

Ctrl-Alt-F7 will get you back to the GUI installtion screen.