Actually, I only got that kernel panic once, and that was when I entered in this
boot option:

boot: linux mem=256M expert text

(On a side note: Is it still a good idea to tell the kernel how much memory is
in the system, or does it find that out just fine on its own now?)

However, when I just did:

boot: expert text

It came up fine. I was still unable to load the promise drivers. Most likely
because the drivers are compiled for RH 6.2 & 7 (kernel 2.2), not 7.1 (kernel
2.4).

So I'm installing 7.1 on a third IDE drive that I attached to the first IDE
controller and when I have a working 7.1 install, I'll compile the rel source
code I found on promise's ftp server and make a loadable module for the
FastTrack100 that will load under 7.1. I'll let everyone know how it goes and
I'll make the module available for anyone who wants it. Don't know if it will
work, but it'll be fun trying.

-Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Densmore [mailto:bjdensmr@epsi.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 12:44 AM
To: Jeremy Fowler
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 Install

On Friday 04 May 2001 10:33 pm, you wrote:
> I'm trying to install RH7.1 on a PC that has an A7V-133 mobo w/ the onboard
> Promise FastTrack100 RAID controller. There are two 20GB Hard drives setup
> in a RAID 0 array, no other hard drives are in the system. Using the
> default RH install, disk druid shows the drives as hde & hdg, instead of as
> one RAID drive. Using the "linux dd" I pointed out the disk with the
> Promise drivers and disk druid still doesn't give me the RAID device. I
> then followed Promise's readme that came with the drivers and I entered in
> "expert text" at the boot: menu. However, I get a kernel panic saying I
> need to set root= at boot. Anybody have any experience with Promise RAID
> cards and Redhat or know of a How-to anywhere?
>
Have you tried setting root= to the install disk? I've been wondering about
installing Linux to disks already set up for RAID/reiserfs. Hope this idea
works for you.

Brian