Install solaris 10 in RAID 5

Hello,
I'm french,
I can't install solaris 10 on a card IEI IMBA-XQ354,
I want to make a RAID 5,
It as a storage intel 82801 sata raid controller,
I think i have not the driver,
so, where can i get it ?
Thanks,
GGA.

As long as you get one of the newer versions of Solaris (either Solaris 10 1/06 or one of the recent Express versions) the Solaris install will handle the grub installation for you. All you really need to do is repartition the hard disk so there is some unallocated space. I used Partition Magic, but there are several tools available. Just shrink the Windows partition down so there are at least 6 GB of unallocated space and start the Solaris install.
However, grub error 21 is caused by the BIOS not giving grub enough info to find the disk to boot off of; the Solaris install can't do much about that. You probably need to spend some time fiddling with the BIOS disk parameters to get it to work. What I would do is make a grub boot CD-ROM (there are instructions in the grub manual, I used grub binaries off a Debian distribution because that was what I had to hand.) Then keep fiddling the BIOS parameters and booting off the grub CD until grub displays your disk.
(Actually if you have the Ubuntu live CD, just fiddling the BIOS parameters until it boots is probably good.)
(For BIOS problems, if you know who made the motherboard in your system, it's often helpful to check the motherboard manufacturer's site for support forums. Surely somebody has managed to boot grub on a config similar to yours...)

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At present I have two server X2270 with information below :
S erver 1 have 4 h ard d isk ( 1 h ard d isk = 1TB)
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I'm not asking for the best solution because i
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NO Disk found.
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1
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2
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1
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2
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3
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6
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7
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8
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10
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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
Please, help.
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Tried to specify boot option "acpi-user-options=2" in the GRUB. Then it fails to mount the floppy drive
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http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 312400
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which is the only way to add the ITU driver.
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