We're trying to install SME 6.0.1 on an SATA RAID. (We do want to boot SME from the RAID.) The board is an Abit KV8-Max3.
Motherboard Link:
http://www.Abit-USA.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=150There are three SATA drives in the system. Two are on SATA-1 and SATA-2, which are controlled by VIA's "on chip" RAID BIOS, and set to operate in RAID-1. The third drive is on SATA-4, SATA-3 to -6 are controlled by the "on board" Silicon Image RAID BIOS.
The board has two RAID BIOS: An "on chip" one which controls two SATA slots, and an "on board" one which controls four other SATA slots. We're not yet sure why the board has two RAID BIOS.
The third drive is a spare that we plan to use as a hot swap backup of the RAID.
The SME 6.0.1 installation CD boots and does not find any of the hard drives. (However, we do notice some lines that read "Autodetecting RAID" as the CD boots.) The respective RAID BIOS
do each see the drives connected to them.
So, the SME install suggests "you probably want to manually select drivers." We choose "Yes", but it just starts running Anaconda and goes to the screens that ask to select a language, keyboard type, and agree to the license. After agreeing to the license, a message then comes up that complains that it could not find any "valid devices to install a file system".
The VIA RAID chipset is VT8237. VIA provides RAID drivers for various versions of Linux here:
http://www.ViaArena.com/?PageID=297#raidThe Silicon Image chipset is Sil 3114:
http://www.SiImage.com/products/sii3114.aspWe think everything we need to get this working is available. However, it appears that a bug is preventing SME from acting properly after it suggests manually selecting drivers.
We also suspect that we will likely need to somehow create a custom install CD with the appropriate drivers on it.
If anyone has any ideas, we would appreciate them. If you know of related links, please post them here. We searched the forum and found some discussions that were close, but found nothing complete.