booting with grub to a non-hardware raid highpoint 370 ctlr

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

hey all,

what i wanted to do should have been straightforward. i have been stuck on the 2.4 kernel since i used to do "hardware raid" on my onboard highpoint controller. i wanted to use the 2.6 kernel, so i decided to dump the system and start anew.

i decided i would use software raid, and since i had three hard drives and two optical drives, i would need to utilize the highpoint controller as a regular IDE interface. this was the plan: to boot from the primary on the highpoint controller (IDE3) and have only select partitions in a software raid configuration with the secondary (IDE4). thus leaving my xp drive on the slave of IDE1 and the opticals would fall into the primary of IDE1 and IDE2.

the following is my disklayout:

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

correct me if im wrong but shouldnt hde1 be (4,0) ??

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

hey, thanks for the reply, but i believe that grub does not detect anything else except hard drives, so hde1 would be (1,0) and, since hdb1 is (0,0)... optical drives i dont think are taken into account.

i think it is right, unless i am misinterpreting your reply.

--EDIT--

does it matter that i installed grub to the hde2 partition? is that too far for grub? does it need to be closer to the first cylinder? ...i am a little confused on this.

also, i think i set hde2 and hdg2 with the bootable flag in fdisk... could that be causing trouble?
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$japh=qq/62D112U107N106E28D89U104N109E89 D86U96N102E14D77U87N106E96D12U68N95E98 D102U101N101E/;
map { $i++ while chop; push (@dune,$i); undef $i; } split /[eE]/;
map { print chr ${\(shift(@dune) + $_)}; } split /[DUNE]/,$japh;

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

okay, i got linux to boot, i realized that in my bios, i had the ATARAID133 first, so in my grub.conf i had to use (hd0,1) instead of (hd1,1)...

on a side note, i am still attempting to get windows to boot, it is listed as the second hard drive in the bios and i tried

map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
makeactive
chainloader (h1,0)+1

but that gave me an error 13... still working on it though, heh i am just happy gentoo is booting!

-- EDIT--

nevermind, got that to go... just tried to map (hd0) (hd2).. etc, and it worked like a charm. whoohoo!
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$japh=qq/62D112U107N106E28D89U104N109E89 D86U96N102E14D77U87N106E96D12U68N95E98 D102U101N101E/;
map { $i++ while chop; push (@dune,$i); undef $i; } split /[eE]/;
map { print chr ${\(shift(@dune) + $_)}; } split /[DUNE]/,$japh;

thechris · Veteran Joined: 12 Oct 2003 Posts: 1203

does it work well? on my similar setup i used:
hda - 120GB
hdc - cdrw
hdd -dvd
hde - 80GB
hdg - 120GB

with hda and hdg used. this gives each HDD a controller with an IRQ. the hpt372 doesn't see optical drives...

the 80G will hold a backup linux install that can access a raid1 partition on the drives (if this is possible) as well as a windows lan-gaming install. this way if i have equipment failure, i am still safe!

o0the_llama0o · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 1:50 am Post subject:

grub only reads harddrives?
im really confused

my setup

cyrillic · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 2:25 am Post subject:

o0the_llama0o · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

it worked thankyouverymuchiamquitehappy

...now to mount hpfs/ntfs in gentoo...

nixnut · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 12:17 pm Post subject:

o0the_llama0o · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject:

i did

i think its a HPT 372N problem i just dled the src from their site will compile thiis weekend