hey, I tried to create a raid drive like you said, and after I drag the two parts of the raid in and press create, it waits for the disk to come online, then errors with "creating raid set failed , could not find raid"

Any ideas I'm eager to get it working but not sure how to go if I cant create the raid disk.

I'm using two same size ata disks, not sata.

Thanks for any ideas you have.

Ah yes I forgot to tell you.

In fact when I was trying RAID for a new installation I booted on a restored image of the ISO (on a partition) but ... with the extensions folder which contains AppleRAID.kext.

So it worked for me because this extension can be loaded but I tried with the DVD and as the extensions folder is not here, AppleRAID.kext is not loaded and ... cannot be loaded !

Thus the "How To" is a bit useless at the moment ... except if you restore the ISO on a spare partition.

I plan to add the Extensions folder and some others fix to a future ppf patch.

I have another install on a separate disk, how do I
Go about installing from an image/ ISO I'm a bit confused
do I need the kext on the install disk?

after I created the raid and it failed to come online I rebooted the cd and the raid I made was online
hopefully everything will be sweet from here. Maybe your guide is fine you just have to add reboot after making raid fails.

Still trying.....

now it says the raid drive is online but I can't mount it and it doesnt appear in the list to install on.

Maybe I'll need to boot like you said,
could you give me a few more details of how to boot with the raid kext included

Thanks

I can use a ppf if you can make one and reburn the disk, I'm still not sure how I make an image of the install disk and boot from it.

Can't I just force load the next using terminal before installing?

I got it to detect and its installing on the raid now.

I had to create the raid, fail with error, reboot cd this forces the raid.kext to load ,
then delete the raid and rebuild it, this time it Is successful and makes a raid partition that you can install on.

I'll tell you if it all works out and you can add a couple of lines to the wiki

Ok so I got it installed and nearly everything works.

A few notes for you wiki,

if using only the disk you need to restart after making the raid give an error, then delete and build the raid again and it will succeed and let you install.

A few of your commands in the wiki some little mistakes, you missed the . in ./standalone when adding the bootloader

when doing the mkdir commands, you list has one wrong, I think its the usr one you just forgot one directory when you wrote it down.

Other than that the guide is fine.

A few extra notes.
when changing the boot file it needs to be the one in BOOT directory not RAID Directory.

And when using -f the extentions that load are the ones in the boot partition not the raid partition, so when installing anything with kexts you need to install them in the BOOT drive not the RAID Drive.

I tried just copying the extentions folder into the boot drive after installing my graphics but it didn't work.
only installing the graphics in BOOT worked.

Maybe you have some more ideas on the extentions problem, I always seem to need to use -f for my usb wireless to auto connect.

Thanks heaps for the guide, for anyone else that wants to try it takes a little while but is well worth it.

Ok thanks a lot ! The wiki has been updated !

Thats ok, thanks heaps for the guide, The pc is so much faster and smoother, and to think the only thing faster is a proper desktop mac worth big bucks is very sweet.

I'll keep my eyes out to see if anyone comes up with a nvidia raid driver, its the only thing to make it sweeter.

My extentions seem ok now, and my wirless connects well, (without needing unpluging and repluging)

Just to clarify, The extentions that load with -f are the ones in the BOOT partition ? so kexts need to be added to that list as well don't they?

Thanks again, Im suprised more people arn't giving it a go it really beefs up the system.

Good Luck