The use of (promise) raid...

[academic]

Hello, I've a problem when trying to boot my computer using the Knoppix CD. There is nothing wrong with the CD since it works on other computers.

But, it won´t boot my computer. The computer has a promise raidcontroller with two HD. C:/ and D:/. My Ide-channels are occupied with CDRW and DVD. And of course two free Ide-channels. I don´t want to move the HD:s from the raidcontroller to the free IDE.

Since I read in this forum, about problem using Raid, I know that it's very tricky to boot when there is a raidcontroller involved. But is there a way of booting my computer at all? And if there is ....HOW????

I already tried "knoppix nosmb" but the computer only tries to mount my HD:s..on and on.

Please help me

/Academic (new to Linux)

[paradocs]

Greetings academic,

Would a floppy boot be acceptable to your use?
The floppy boot image is included on the KNOPPIX CD.
"Cheat codes" can be put in to modify the file syslinux.cfg

A more elegent solution may be to boot from usb if your
bios supports this. Just a thought -- actually I have never
done that.

As far as Raid -- I have little knowledge.

Best Wishes
paradocs

[flailer]

I'm a newbie my self but I've had raid arrays on my box and knoppix discs booted no problem. I just made sure the hardware boot sequence in bios had my cdrom booting before hard drives or other boot devices. 2nd after floppy is where i have my atapi cdrom in the boot sequence.