[plug] Serveraid 3L controller and Redhat 5.2

[Ian Kent]

Garth Atkinson wrote:
> 
> Hello Pluggers
> 
> Can the boot disk that redhat 5.2 uses at installation time be updated
> with IBM serveraid support?

Maybe, but ...

> 
> I have to stay with that version of redhat unfortunately and it does not
> detect the 3L card (and so does not find any disk space) !!!!!

The current implementation of RAID on Linux does not provide root file
system support.
There is some blurb about setting up a mirrored root system in the
raidtools package and it is likely that it can be done for raid 5 also,
if you wish.

The description assumes Linux is already installed on a non-raid
filesystem and is working.

Add an IDE or SCSI root and work from there.
That seems to be the way it is!