Apple Freak Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Are there any hardware or software RIAD avialable on Hackintosh? Or will it work if I install OS X Server? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowned Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Do you mean RAID? no RIAD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-241711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westep23 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Apple Disk Util has built in softraid, work's good but you can not boot from it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-241713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorqueX86 Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 Apple Disk Util has built in softraid, work's good but you can not boot from it. Then doesn't work good Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-241828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 AFAIK, there not way to boot RAID on x86 OS X (even on real Macs). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-241899 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkblt Posted November 25, 2006 Share Posted November 25, 2006 I'm thinking of getting one of these: http://www.cooldrives.com/inbaymosaiir.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-242050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Freak Posted November 25, 2006 Author Share Posted November 25, 2006 How about Xserve RAID? How do they do that? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-242063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 usually those are just for storage purposes and are not used as the boot drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-248186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westep23 Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Just an update, Softraid 3.6 allows booting to intel mac's. And it work on hacintosh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-271748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 mmmhhh maybe I'll test it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-272570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Just an update, Softraid 3.6 allows booting to intel mac's. And it work on hacintosh. You mean you can boot a Hackintosh with RAID now? How is this possible? We use a BIOS boot loader, right? SoftRAID 3.6 fully supports 64-bit memory in the new Intel EFI booting architecture on the Mac Pro and Intel Xserve http://www.softraid.com/news.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-272638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westep23 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 (edited) Yes i have my OSX86 on my sata drive. MacOs X see it as disk3. I put 2 pata 111G Drive's in(disk0 & disk1), setup the raid. This created a disk2 without any slices(but its partitioned just no /dev/disk2s*)only disk2. Anyway's then I installed OSX from dvd from my current install. Copyied over the new softraid driver. Rebooted but I had to use darwin bootloader from my current install. Using -v rd=disk2 it was able to boot. I think there will be no way to install the darwin bootloader to the actual disk. So this is kinda pointless unless maybe you could use the dvd to boot. I havn't really tried anything else, because I don't really need a bootable raid now. I just wanted to give you guy's a head's up. Edit: Just thought about something else grub might be able to be used, but I dont know grub work's does it just chainload? or does actually boot mach_kernel Edited January 10, 2007 by westep23 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-272727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PascalW Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yes i have my OSX86 on my sata drive. MacOs X see it as disk3. I put 2 pata 111G Drive's in(disk0 & disk1), setup the raid. This created a disk2 without any slices(but its partitioned just no /dev/disk2s*)only disk2. Anyway's then I installed OSX from dvd from my current install. Copyied over the new softraid driver. Rebooted but I had to use darwin bootloader from my current install. Using -v rd=disk2 it was able to boot. I think there will be no way to install the darwin bootloader to the actual disk. So this is kinda pointless unless maybe you could use the dvd to boot. I havn't really tried anything else, because I don't really need a bootable raid now. I just wanted to give you guy's a head's up. Edit: Just thought about something else grub might be able to be used, but I dont know grub work's does it just chainload? or does actually boot mach_kernel Or if you want to keep using your raid partition to boot, put in rd=disk2 in your com.apple.boot.plist of your disk where darwin bootloader is placed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-272839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yes ... Rebooted but I had to use darwin bootloader from my current install. Using -v rd=disk2 it was able to boot. ... I think there will be no way to install the darwin bootloader to the actual disk. So this is kinda pointless unless maybe you could use the dvd to boot. Thanks for the details. It sounds like one could also just create a small BIOS boot partition to load the darwin bootloader (to boot RAID). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-272982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westep23 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 (edited) The only problem I had with that was you will need 2 OS X install's. One with the boot loader, and the raid one. This weekend I'm gonna do some more testing with this. So maybe I can come up with something then. Edited January 11, 2007 by westep23 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-273550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blkblt Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 This is very interesting news, it seems like a decent workaround to have a tiny partition with the Darwin Bootloader, if you figure out how to do this, let us know! /blkblt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/34132-any-riad/#findComment-282327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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