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totopo n00b
Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 73 Location: Austria
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject: raid-0 install dual boot Windows XP |
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Hello,
I have got a new computer with a MSI motherboard (K8N Neo4-54G), it has two SATA hard disks and Windows XP in raid-0.
I would like to install Gentoo and dual boot, but when I boot the LiveCD, by using fdisk I only see the disks separated
I have tried to follow the guide in:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID
but does not give me a clear understanding about the Windows partition and the Linux partition, does someone know how to install Gentoo Linux and still dual boot Windows using raid-0?
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54098 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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totopo,
You have a BIOS RAID system, somewhat unkindy called fake raid. RAID come in 3 incompatibe sorts.
Hardware Raid
BIOS Raid
Linux Kernel Raid
A few words about each sort.
Hardare raid is usually only found in servers and its normally a plug in card for a 64 bit PCI bus. The card manages all the drives and data is written to the card only once. The array appears as a single device
BIOS Raid looks like hardware raid but this appearance is faked by the BIOS. This is what you are using for your Windows install now. The drives are put into the raid array the partitioned, so evey partiton is the same raid level.
Kernel raid is also software raid, but it is implemented by the Linux Kernel. Drives are partitioned normally, then the partitions are put into the raid sets, so the same pair of drives can have partitions with different raid levels. This what I have, with raid1 /boot and everything else raid0, except swap, which the kernel can manage.
You have a choice between BIOS raid and kernel raid. If dual booting is a 'must have', thats reduced to BIOS raid. Unforunately, the howto you linked was about kernel raid. You need to start here http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/ _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
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totopo n00b
Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 73 Location: Austria
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: raid-0 |
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Hello,
Thanks very much for the answer.
The dual booting was not necesary at the end, and buying extra hardware is not in my budget, so I was able to install Gentoo using the HOWTO.
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