or any other “server” with a cheap sata raid card for that matter.
it fails, you can try the fakeraid howto for < 8.10 versions, but your best shot is to use the 8.10 alternate install cd (only one that supports this feature).
It will prompt you to activate the embedded sata raid devices, which you’ll obviously do, the rest of the installation is the same as a regular install, minus the graphic mode.
Chances are that you won’t be able to boot after the installation and get a busybox shell prompt with an error message “Gave up waiting for root device”.
Check if this lets you continue with the boot sequence:
dmraid -ay exit
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