(fake)raid problems with jaunty

[Karl F. Larsen]

prad wrote:
> we have a supermicro 1.26G server with 4 scsi hd and a dac960 raid card
> it's worked great on freebsd for about a year, but we want to switch to
> ubuntu.
>
> we can install jaunty without bootloader and separately install grub
> (or lilo) and the booting fails, it seems because it can't find the raid
> array. we've tried raid5, raid0+1, raid0.
>
> the livecd doesn't boot. neither do other distribution installs such as
> slackware, suse, fedora or even debian. we've tried the ubuntu server
> version as well as the alternate cd. we've had no better luck with 8.04
> either.
>
> i find it peculiar that freebsd (7.0 and 7.1), works right away with
> this, but so many linuxes don't even boot and ubuntu can't seem to
> mount root.
>
> thoughts on possible solutions:
>
> 1. figure out some way to disable the dac960 and use software raid. if
> we disable in bios, clear config or pull the card, the harddrives aren't
> picked up by the motherboard.
>
> 2. find a way to boot from something else ide, cdrom, even floppy and
> try to transfer control to the raid drive setup.
>
>
>   
    You have not a Jaunty problem but a Grub problem. You have not 
installed the Grub data on the first Hard drive and you need to tell 
Grub where your Ubuntu system is located. I can't write up all you need 
but you need to learn how Grub operates. There are several books on Grub.

Karl


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