idkeen,
First of all I would like to point out my Linux skills, apart from being able to pronounce it properly, are pretty much non existent. Well I can just about operate ‘MC’ as ‘VI’ just confuses the hell out of me.
I have a Promise sx4000 and I have been having the same problems as Gatox.
I have tried to install the driver prepared by idkeen but they do not load. I have installed SME on a standard IDE drive and installed the drivers, worked fine this way.
I then tried something that I used to do with windows systems, Ghost the partitions onto the RAID. I was pretty hopeful because of successes before.
Copied across fine, although it did take much longer than I had expected, still copied across no probs.
When it came to booting up, I got the SME/LILO splash screen. and it started to boot..... for a second or two.
From reading other posts on Contribs, I believe this to be a problem with the boot order. How can I change this on the standard drive so that the order is correct when transferred onto the RAID….. or am I wasting my time because ghosting drives in this situation just will not work with SME?
I have read posts about putting the fasttrak drivers into the initrd, whatever that is and something about PCITABLE and MODINFO?????
The reason I ask is Gatox seems to be having the same problem as me, I seem to have tried something no one else in this situation has (using Ghost) and idkeen has created a driver disk that actually works making you (idkeen) the most logical choice to ask for help.
If you could point me in the right direction or give me a rough idea what to do, I can give it a go (books, websites etc). Unfortunately at this point it looks like I may have to turn to Windows, a shame really because I’ve been using SME since v4 and never had a problem with it before.
Thanks for any help available
James
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