From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MVMBE-0007TN-Vl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:07:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2B47E03B5; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E922E03B5 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1D9F04F9EF7 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:07:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:07:33 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD installation not recognizing megaraid RAID set Message-ID: <20090727100733.7bd99a1a@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5185b3ce0907270145q31445ccelc77437cae2bc87d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <5185b3ce0907270145q31445ccelc77437cae2bc87d7@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs11 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/rtD1v_C9nPSNw/VwQBk/PIM"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: d7e10040-2824-4b1f-8c8c-f5d56b21ee9d X-Archives-Hash: 36d855789a9da98ce17d030816089e29 --Sig_/rtD1v_C9nPSNw/VwQBk/PIM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:45:28 +0800, Ho-Ki Au wrote: > I was trying to put gentoo on a dell poweredge 1950 quadcore xeon > machine with three disks connected to a lsi PERC 5/i raid controller. > In the BIOS settings, all three disks were added to the controller for > a RAID5 set up. When I boot from LiveCD (2008 version with 2.6.24-r5 > kernel) with dmraid=3D'-ay' option, it came up not recognizing the RAID > set, dmraid is for software RAID. If you have a hardware RAID controller, you should just see the single device presented by the controller, not the three individual disks. --=20 Neil Bothwick If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand words, how dangerous is a fax? --Sig_/rtD1v_C9nPSNw/VwQBk/PIM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkptblUACgkQum4al0N1GQOZfwCeKaPxvykjHkvFKNW9ic+n5cC9 Cb0AoKAq9iV3Zc1RDEp5+5niJWvt6HV7 =L9H/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/rtD1v_C9nPSNw/VwQBk/PIM--