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cybersarge
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 Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:47 am Post subject: Dual Boot Gentoo & WinXP on KG-7 Raid |
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Ok one of my first posts, so please bear with me if I get this wrong somehow. Also, this is off the top of my head since I work the graveyard shift and don't have access to play with my system right now. I have successfully installed Gentoo 1.4 under VMWare (Windows) and also as a replacement for a SUSE 8 box. So I have had some experience.
I'm searching for some insight into how to do the following: (I've tried once and got hung up with Grub, so I may try again from the beginning. The error was unknown partition for my reiserfs ROOT & I think BOOT which I think I set up as ext3)
Windows XP (fresh install) 15GB NTFS partition on first 80GB HD
Then follow the install guide and cfdisk my Boot, Swap, & Root partitions on the rest of the space.
As a side note I left all of my data on the RAID 1 (2-40GB HD's) & 1 Slave 80 GB HD (NTFS for all of these)
Big questions:
Can I still have RAID 1 on the onboard HPT372 controller without jumping through hoops?
Would it be easier to unplug the RAID Drives and my second Hard Drive to ensure I don't screw up any of that data and then add them in later? (I'm guessing I would just have to boot down and add this to /etc/fstab)?
Any guidance or gotchas appreciated. I'll post as many details as anyone would like in about 8 hours. This may be better suited for the Install Forum, I don't see how to move it though.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:10 am Post subject: |
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grub won't work with raid m8, also tried it here with other linux distros.
Try lilo, and get the documentation from the gentoosite, about how to install it on raid.
Btw if u manage to get that dual boot working, pls let me know how u did it, i already gave up
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| Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2002 9:30 am Post subject: |
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My ultimate plan is to make the Windows partition loadable in VMWare through Linux as well. But to also have it bootable - just for a few games.
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cybersarge
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 3:05 pm Post subject: Dual Boot Gentoo & WinXP on KG-7 Raid |
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Pretty simple this time through, the only thing that stands out that I did NOT do this time - is this line from the Install guide:
| Code: | # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdaBOOT bs=1024 count=1024
BOOT is the partition that holds your /boot. |
I did this the first time and it wreaked havoc. Or maybe I just screwed up. I just really took my time and followed the guide almost to the T. and Grub works fine with my setup.
Oh BTW, one more thing I had to do was make a hard link to get my menu, for some reason the sym link was not working:
| Code: | | ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst |
Basically emit the -s
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| Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 3:07 pm Post subject: RAID 1 |
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Also poking in the Kernel I see RAID 1 support, why does everything else seem contrary is it the HPT 370/372 controller that is at fault?
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