Micha Hi, >From the little experience I had with this, I recall reading that these 'RAID controllers' on consumer level motherboards, aren't especially advised for use with linux.
I don't know about Debian in this case, but here are the instructions for Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto Personally I ended up using mdadm, but I didn't have the constriction of having to dual boot Windows as well. Have fun, Tom On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Micha Feigin <mi...@post.tau.ac.il> wrote: > I just got a new w520 with two 500GB hard drives configured in raid0 (seems > to be a bios based software raid0). Windows is already installed and running > on it (and I need it to stay there unfortunately) and I'm trying to install > linux along side it (debian unstable). > > I got the installed running and it installed fine as it seems (although it > looks like it messed up the partition table a bit as now I also have sda1 > and sda2 that weren't there to begin with I think), but I can't get grub to > install and rescue mode also won't boot into linux no matter what drive I > choose as root. I did manage to mount the partition from /dev/matter/...05 > and everything is installed on it, but again, no grub. > > Any ideas on how to get linux up and running (I need to boot into it > somehow). > > I tried debian unstable installed from usb and debian live installed from > usb, but neither goes past the grub step. > > I also tried following some instructions I found on the net saying to add > dmraid=true to the command line during install and then again when grub > fails when booting into recovery but no /dev/dm and no mounting the linux > partition at that point so I can't continue. > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks > > ______________________________**_________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/**mailman/listinfo/linux-il<http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il> >
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