Lack of support for soft RAID

[Scott White]

Presently there is no out of the box support for BIOS enabled software RAID
such as the many that come with NVidia, Intel or Highpoint Chipsets.  This
can be a turn-off for power users wishing to dual-boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu.

Dual booting is easily performed, and the team has done an incredible job on
a variety of systems, still I feel this area is severely lacking.

In order to even get Ubuntu to see the drive you have to install DMRaid,
which is in the universe of repositories, once you enable it.

Subsequently with installing ntfs-tools I was able to successfully resize
the partition using a combination of ntfs-resize & fdisk.  Now Ubuntu
installer is able to see the free space, but the installation fails, though
it successfully creates the partitions it fails 15% way through "Installing
System" with "Failed to create a file system":"Detecting Filesystems".

I'm posting this here because I've already inputted a bug into Launchpad
about a week ago without any responses and I wanted to know if there is
possibly an easier way, I know that even if I got Ubuntu to install I would
need to do some hacking to get grub to work.  Any information about this
would be helpful.

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/57860

Thanks,
Scott
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