5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash

[Daniel O'Connor]

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?

Thanks.

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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