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Installing on an HP LH4

Hello,

I have an HP LH4 server and am trying to install redhat 6.0 on the machine.  The problem is that all hard drives are located on the HP NetRaid adapter, and after going to redhat's web site it doesn't seem to support having the boot partiton on a raid adapter.  During the installtion I get the following errors
Partition Check:
VFS: Cannot open root device 8:21
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 8:21

I already have NT installed on Raid 10, and I put in a new hard drive set to raid 0 which is where I planned on installing linux.

Anyone know of a way to get linux onto a HP LH4 with a raid adapter (with out losing NT)?

Thanks,

Joe
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Here's the Root Raid HOWTO, but as far as I know the HP NetRAID adapters are not officially supported yet.
  http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/Root-RAID-HOWTO.html

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Now I don't want to have linux installed on a Raid1,5,... drives.  It will actually be installed on a Raid0 drive, and I'll be booting from a floppy becuase I already have NT installed and I don't feel like playing around with LiLo.  Do I have to take all these steps in the Root Raid Howto.

Thanks,

Joe
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If you would like to know howto boot without a floppy, but with lilo as secondary and NT OSloader as primary bootloader, feel free to contact me. I have a document somewhere about this with a solution. And as far as loading the symbios module, I managed to get it working. But I don't think it's that stable yet. :)
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I just got Red Hat 6.1 which supports HP NetRaid.  Thanks for all the help.

ignite,

Can you send me your document.  Booting linux from a floppy is slow and it is only going to be on this machine for a week or two, and I don't feel screwing up my NT installation.  I'll set up a seperate question if you want to give you some points.

Thanks,

Joe