Ubuntu Dual Boot on XPS 710 w/RAID 0 and 3rd SATA drive?

[Joe Palladino (aka The Mindfulgeek)]

Martin Owens wrote:
> Hey Jim
>
>   
>> I have a Dell XPS 710 w/RAID 0 config which has my XP install on it,
>> all working fine and dandy.
>>
>> Have installed a 3rd hard drive (500G Seagate) and trying to install
>> Ubuntu 8.10 onto that as a dual boot. 
>>
>> Have been able to run through setup/install numerous times, (like,
>> 30??) but keep having problems once it is done, think I specifically
>> need help with GRUB,,,?
>>     
>
>   
>> I’ve been fighting with this off and on for a week now L
>>     
>
> If you bios supports loading off the 3rd hard drive... no what's needed
> is to have grub installed on the boot sector of the first hard drive.
> That grub will point to the 3rd hard drive for config and a list of
> options which will then boot off any of the disks.
>
> But it's not easy to set up, you need to know what your doing with that
> kind of setup.
>
> Let us know if you'd like some help with it.
>
> Martin,
>
>
>   

You can always use gparted on system rescue cd to add and the 3rd drive
to the raid and repartion the raid to have a separate Linux partition.

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