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If the system is old enough to have a PERC 2 controller and you are just learning Linux, you might consider installing CentOS 5 instead. &nbsp;It's an older (but stable and supported) release which will have the driver you need for that hardware.<br />
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Otherwise, ashwin42 is correct. &nbsp;You'd need to compile a driver for your hardware. &nbsp;It's part of the megaraid legacy drivers.
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If the system is old enough to have a PERC 2 controller and you are just learning Linux, you might consider installing CentOS 5 instead.  It's an older (but stable and supported) release which will have the driver you need for that hardware.

Otherwise, ashwin42 is correct.  You'd need to compile a driver for your hardware.  It's part of the megaraid legacy drivers.

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I'm new to Linux and trying to install Fedora 13 on an older system with hardware RAID-5 (Dell PERC 2). &nbsp;After booting up the CD I select the default option to install and got the following error:<br />
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Can't mount root filesystem<br />
Boot has failed, sleeping forever<br />
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Is this error similar to Window's BSOD due to lack of RAID driver loaded with F6?
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I'm new to Linux and trying to install Fedora 13 on an older system with hardware RAID-5 (Dell PERC 2).  After booting up the CD I select the default option to install and got the following error:

Can't mount root filesystem
Boot has failed, sleeping forever

Is this error similar to Window's BSOD due to lack of RAID driver loaded with F6?

Fedora 13 - &quot;Can't mount root filesystem&quot; with hardware RAID-5

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

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RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.

Fedora 13 - &quot;Can't mount root filesystem&quot; with hardware RAID-5

Fedora 13 - "Can't mount root filesystem" with hardware RAID-5