I have a new system i put together, and I am having some real bonified issues that I've never had to deal with.

#1   Got a compaq smart array scsi/raid controller..It shows up before boot, but there is not a preOS utility to go into like my old promise controller did, so i researched and theres a iso file called "smart start" so i burned the iso using the nero burner on my roomates XP machine the normal way, just like my linux isos.  I get a "disk boot failure" hmmm....

#2   I also have a new 200GB maxtor ata133 drive that i took outta my other linux machine and repartitioned it and formated using reiser and did a slackware install(10.1 nice!!), lilo wouldnt go in automaticly for some reason, it usually does, so I manually did it and went to boot from HD and no go, so i booted from cd and couldnt find a kernel.
     I tried Vector Linux and vector didnt even see the hard drive after install, so i checked master/slave/CS pins, its on master, ide cables have been swapped, and some old song.

I dont understand wft is going on with this... I'm gonna step away for a couple days and come back to it.

Anyone have experience with "smart start"?
How do i run an OS on these scsi drives?  

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