I am building a Linux PDC for a customer using a desktop that the hard drive had crashed. I bought 2 new Seagate Barracude SATA 3G hard drives and put them in Raid0 using a Promise Technology TX2300 Raid card. To install SuSE 9.0 I found the boot.iso and used it with a driver update disk (the disk was the promise driver) and did an FTP install. The driver loaded, the hard drives were recognized, and the full FTP install seemed to finish. Now when the computer rebooted after the install was done it didn't complete boot. Here is the end of the message I got:

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno=2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-magic-8, errno=2
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or 08:02
Please append a corrent "root=" boot option
Try booting with pci=noacpi, acpi=ht, or acpi=off on the command line
If one helps, please report the following lines:
DMI: BIOS: Intel Corp., PT84510A.86A.0012.P01.0111131009, 11/31/2001
DMI: System: , ,
DMI: Board: Intel Corporation , D845BG , AAA74063-403
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02

I can provide more information is anyone needs it, and I can take a digital picture of the boot screen if anyone needs to see that. Just let me know and I will try to provide any information I can.

Ah, problem is your trying to use an ancient version of linux on an sata drive? Use 10.0 if you want it to actually work.

Jusr for information, RAID0 does not provide any redundancy. If you lose one disk you lose the contents of the whole RAID volume. If your customer wants resilience following a disk crash I would suggest at least mirroring the disks (RAID1).

Regards,
Jimvin

Excuse me, and let me refine my last post a bit. Jimvin was correct, I was attempting RAID1. Not RAID0, my error as I typed. I have attempted Suse10 and it refuses to even recognize the drives exist.

But for now I am going to just leave it at this. The project is no longer mine, so I have no further information to give on it.