Dell Poweredge 2650 RAID setup

[EvilCartman]

Hi,

I am currently installing Gentoo with the 2004.3 livecd on a dell poweredge 2650 that has the Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI and has hardware setup for RAID1. I am having trouble finding out which way to install the kernel and what to boot from. It is telling me there is one drive (sda), so the hardware is taking care of the other hardware in the background. Should I directly install to /dev/sda (treat it like a regular install)? But if I do that I get a kernel panic (cannot find root=). If I convert it to /dev/md (using mdadm)
using command:

//boot formated with ext2
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=1 /dev/sda1
//root formated with reiserfs
mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=1 /dev/sda3
//swap is on /dev/sda2

and reboot I still get a kernel panic. I followed both howto install's (from the forum-
[url]https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=71860&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=raid+root+howto+mdadm [/url]and the 'raid tipsntricks documentation of gentoo'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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[pwehrwein]

do you have support for your adaptec scsi controlled compiled into the kernel? and what does your grub.conf/lilo.conf look like?
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[EvilCartman]

[aman]

You need to compile in aacraid as well. I am running many of these servers on gentoo and I just compile in aic7xxx and aacraid into the kernel and install right onto sda. Works great!
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