I'm happy that someone finally woke the dmraid giant. I have attempted to install Ubuntu on a simple raid setup at home that has Intel ICH5 (fake raid). This is a system that I am dual booting, only distro I've gotten to work out of the box is Fedora (seamlessly).
<br><br>Now someone created a few different wonderful guides for this, and not all of these work for everyone. The guide at <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto
</a> is very close I feel it almost worked on my system (I will try it again, I may have made a misstep).<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">However</span> I feel regarding FakeRaid, that this needs to be <span style="font-weight: bold;">
built-into </span>Ubuntu, this is the only way for the dmraid package to get the attention it needs. These FakeRaid setups are getting more and more common and it's great for gamers who dual-boot with Windows.<br><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">
If<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>we choose not to include it on either the primary or alternate CDs then we are only causing <span style="font-weight: bold;">less testing</span> to be performed with the necessary packages. I've fully convinced that this will always be an Achilles heel for Ubuntu until FakeRaid support is out of the box and requires little work.
<br><br>I understand the case for LVM and that software RAID is a better solution that FakeRaid, UNLESS you are dual booting which it's useless. Lets wake up and finally include this on the Live or Alternate CD.<br><br>As always I'm willing to assist this effort in any way possible.
<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Scott<br>