Re: Dualbooting Windows and Linux on RAID 1

Z.K. wrote:
I have installed several installations of Linux, but I recently added a
new PC with a Windows RAID 1 system. Before I just go ahead and trash
my system which seems likely I decided to ask a question first. How
difficult is it to dual boot a RAID hard drive with both Windows and
Linux on it? I have two 250G hard drives and I am using 80G to boot
Windows. I would like to put Linux on another partition. Is this
possible or should I just use another hard drive?

Raid is not necessarily Raid seeing you are referring to SATA hardware
RAID. The drivers that you install on windows make the RAID controller
appear as a Hardware RAID controller to windows, linux does not. Most
sata controllers are not real Hardware Raid controller and I'm assuming
the board you have has a ICH7 controller on it which doesn't allow linux
to see the raided drives, just two separate drives.

See
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html

You may have to alter the setting in your bios to enable the drives to
be seen by linux. This might lose your windows partitions and ALL OF
YOUR DATA!!!!!!

You'd be better off installing linux on a separate drive unless you want
to play around with the dm_mod module which wasn't stable last time I
looked (6months ago)

The motherboard I am using is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R with onboard RAID.
I am using the Gigabyte RAID controller.

Z.K.
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