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

[Jim O'Beirne]

Wow, looks like after a week of fighting with this, I have at least found
the right mailing list! Thanks so much everyone already for your help.
I have tried checking the BIOS to get to be able to show the 3rd drive up
for booting but to no avail. It shows when I boot into the live cd and can
install to it, and also when I boot into the RAID 0 with WinXp it shows
fully and properly partitioned .. within Micro-Suck Disc Mangler (oops,
Microsoft Disk Manager I mean, wink).

To be honest, I am finding this pretty perplexing. Heck, I would be willing
to pay someone to help me get this done, I have "wasted" a ton of time on
this already. But, I WOULD like to know what I am doing wrong and use this
as a learning experience.

TIA
Jim



On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Joe Palladino (aka The Mindfulgeek) <
mindfulgeek at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Martin Owens wrote:
>
> Hey Jim
>
>
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>  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,
>
>
>
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> 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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