Date:  Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:59:23 -0500
From:  "Gerald Waugh" <gwaugh (at mark) frontstreetnetworks.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:07560] Re: Error installing NuOnce v 4.5 on SUN Fire x2200 with grub/raid
To:  <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Message-Id:  <013501c6eee8$f09cf780$0301a8c0@Jerrycp>
In-Reply-To:  <452F9830.1050008 (at mark) enavn.com>
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> 
> Larry Smith wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, I had one load do something similar (would not "see" 
> the drives) 
> > and I
> > played around some in the options (you press F<something> 
> during boot) and 
> > used/selected a different SCSI and it came up and loaded fine.
> > 
> >  Believe inside Linux SATA is treated as a SCSI type drive, so you 
> > might try
> > manually selecting different drives types/layouts during 
> the boot process and 
> > see if one works.
> > 
> 
> Aparently I only have two options - i.e. select F3 for Grub, 
> then select 
> 32 for dual SATA disk mirror - only other option is to select 
> IDE, but 
> that does not work either? Could there be a way to tell 
> anaconda to let 
> me partition manually ?

Look at your BIOS, is there a way to disable hardware RAID?
Else select a single drive install, and RAID will be done in hardware.
Most servers with onboard RAID us FRAID (Fake Raid) and are slower than
using software RAID.
So best option is to 'Disable Hardware RAID'

Gerald