Mandrake 9.2/10.0 Install Problems (FastTrack100)

[armondf]

Hi,

I'm having massive difficulties installing Mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake 10 Official on a Gigabyte Rackmount Server with an onboard Promise PDC20265R IDE RAID controller using FastTrack100 Lite. The Installation does not recognise the controller as a RAID controller, and effectively tries to handle the drives connected to it as independent IDE drives. Unfortunately, this does not help as these disks cannot be booted. In fact, after reboot, I end up with a black screen filled with 999's and no bootloader.

I've searched the net flat for an answer to this problem, and have found "partial linux drivers" on the promise website [www.promise.com]. However, I am unable to figure out what to do with these partial linux drivers. Is there a simple, step by step way in which I can install the system completely from CD, and ensure that somehow these drivers get installed correctly? I've attempted with both Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0.

If anyone has had similar issues, please post, as I'm trying to either figure out a workaround, or at the very least, try and work out a way to install the system succesffuly.

Regards,
Armond

[kjbunete]

Welcome,


well, this you might have to have one of the vets in linux to help. I have never done a raid in linux, so I have no idea. I do know that the 999's when to boot loader should be is that the bootloader did not install correctly. Also, where sis you install the boot loader? Sometimes Mandrake install will ask you where to install the bootloader. And what bootloader are you using?