5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

[Mark Kirkwood]

I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In 
my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will 
work...

Mark


Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Hi,
> I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 RAID 
> controller (in mirror).
> 
> The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump) 
> but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record what 
> the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which 
> makes it unreadable :(
> 
> I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and got 
> the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the 
> motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID 
> controller.
> 
> It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installed 
> it boots from the RAID card just fine (!)
> 
> I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method 
> doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem?
>