skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Hey people, When I put an OSX86 10.5.x disk in I get a ...boot.slist not found error. When I put S3 Iatkos in, I don't get the error because of Chameleon, but it offers me no way of installing. It just lists my partitions. System has a hardware raid. Any help would be great. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kup Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 At the Chameleon boot menu one of the options should be the Installation DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 Nope. It just gives me two partitions. System Reserved and Windows NTFS. Of course, its actually one partition, but its a RAID volume. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kup Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 How is your DVD drive attached, via the ICH9R on a SATA cable? Ok, one idea. Set the bios to AHCI instead of RAID and see if it see's the DVD drive? It shouldn't damage the RAID array if you don't try to boot Windows. You may need to install it like that and once the Bootloader is installed on your Snow Hard Drive and then set the bios back to RAID. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 How is your DVD drive attached, via the ICH9R on a SATA cable? Ok, one idea. Set the bios to AHCI instead of RAID and see if it see's the DVD drive? It shouldn't damage the RAID array if you don't try to boot Windows. You may need to install it like that and once the Bootloader is installed on your Snow Hard Drive and then set the bios back to RAID. Is that not very risky. It is a hardware raid, it won't copy it onto both drives. Yes, SATA cable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kup Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 Hardware RAID using the onboard controller on your IP35 or a separate add on card? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508420 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 Hardware RAID using the onboard controller on your IP35 or a separate add on card? Onboard Controller. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kup Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 In that case it should be fine. I can't take responsibility if it frags your RAID Array but it should be fine if you don't boot into Windows, just boot up the iAtkos S3 DVD to see if it works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508427 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 In that case it should be fine. I can't take responsibility if it frags your RAID Array but it should be fine if you don't boot into Windows, just boot up the iAtkos S3 DVD to see if it works. How will the RAID know to mirror the second volume though? Because the OS X is being installed onto a partition which lies within the RAID array. Basically, Two volumes. Two Partitions across those two volumes (one of which OS X will be installed on). One RAID. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kup Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 It won't. It's just to test if it is the RAID setting causing the issue. You will struggle to install onto an already built and in use Windows RAID Array. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 Ahh, I see. Thats unfortunate. I mean, the partition is there to go and what not. I'm amazed you can't install directly onto a RAID. In the end, it should just see it as a single partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508451 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kup Posted July 10, 2010 Share Posted July 10, 2010 There are ways to do it but I'm pretty sure they start with OSX as the primary OS and then Windows after. I'll try to dig out the guide I've used and post a link when I've got it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 10, 2010 Author Share Posted July 10, 2010 thanks, would be great ;) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1508485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 18, 2010 Author Share Posted July 18, 2010 Still had no luck myself. Tried to install it the other day but wouldn't have it. If I initialize the hard drive (its currently RAW) is there a way I could force the install if its not willing to pickup the DVD drive. I'm a little gutted that I've not been able to do it tbh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1513700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skezza Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 What about if I use Macrium reflect backup software. Lets say I installed it on another machine, then loaded the partition onto the RAID using that? How does that sound? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/224559-ip35-pro-raid-not-going-anywhere-me-thinks/#findComment-1515269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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