ABIT NF7-S RAID boot setup?

[Jo Schambach]

I am trying to install WindowsXP on a ABIT NF7-S motherboard based PC, with 2
harddrives attached to the Silicon Image RAID chip as the boot device.
These 2 harddrives on the RAID chip are the only harddrives in the system, and
they are configured as RAID-1 (mirrored).
I successfully started the installation from the XP CD, pressed F6 to install
the RAID driver, chose the mirror set as the partition to install on, and the
installation formatted the disk and copied the files. After the copying, the
system rebooted, but when it wanted to start from the disks, it claimed it
couldn't find a valid disk. So obviously something must not be configured
properly in the CMOS settings. Or do I have to boot from the CD again after
copying the files?
Can anyone help with the proper settings for this motherboard? I tried "Boot
from Serial ATA" but that didn't succeed.
Please help.

Regards,
--
Dr Joachim Schambach
The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Physics
1 University Station C1600
Austin, Texas 78712-0264, USA
Phone: (512) 471-1303; FAX: (781) 998-5513
e-mail: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Jamie]

I have this motherboard also and use XP I don't use Raid anymore. Used to
use it with KR7a. I believe you should look at 2 things one you will want
Boot from Serial ATA set in CMOS. The other thing is in the RAID
configuration CMOS you should be able to say set this drive as the bootable
drive somewhere. This is what you want to look for.
The drives are working because Windows was able to see them. They just are
not setup properly to boot.

Jamie