Hi,<div><br></div><div>I actually do what maybe your attempting, but without RAID, on my test machines. Originally I install Windows when one drive was in (as SDA). Then moved it to SDC so I can install my regular linux install on one drive (SDB, with its own boot loader) and install random test OS's on the regular SDA. Then I don't have to mess with boot loaders, just change BIOS settings. Well, I had to modify GRUB's menu.lst for the Ubuntu install on SDB. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But since you've got a RAID card, all bets are off. I've seen it where you can only boot off an array that is on the RAID card. I had an old server board that was 2 IDE channels of RAID and 1 non-RAID IDE. It wouldn't boot off a drive that wasn't in an array on the RAID channels. But Windows and Gentoo (what I was using at the time) would see drives not in an array after boot.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Martin makes sense on what to try. GRUB might be able to see the RAID array and the single drive since it will be after the array is initialized. Just keep the install CD handy incase GRUB gets clobbered by Windows. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Oh, and word of warning, and I apologize if I'm stating the obvious. Changing the physical order of the drives will probably kill the array (and windows along with it). </div><div><br></div><div>
Anyways, if its not settled, I'll be available again after next week. Let me know. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Rio</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Martin Owens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:doctormo@gmail.com">doctormo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 19:47 -0500, Jim O'Beirne wrote:<br>
> Wow, looks like after a week of fighting with this, I have at least<br>
> found the right mailing list! Thanks so much everyone already for your<br>
> help.<br>
<br>
</div>For sure! :-)<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I have tried checking the BIOS to get to be able to show the 3rd drive<br>
> up for booting but to no avail. It shows when I boot into the live cd<br>
> and can install to it, and also when I boot into the RAID 0 with WinXp<br>
> it shows fully and properly partitioned .. within Micro-Suck Disc<br>
> Mangler (oops, Microsoft Disk Manager I mean, wink).<br>
<br>
</div>The BIOS might not be able to do anything. The problem is that your<br>
trying to boot from a third disk when BIOS only supports 2 hard drives<br>
as possible boot candidates. What you need to do is boot from the first<br>
disk using grub which is looking at the 3rd disk for info.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> To be honest, I am finding this pretty perplexing. Heck, I would be<br>
> willing to pay someone to help me get this done, I have "wasted" a ton<br>
> of time on this already. But, I WOULD like to know what I am doing<br>
> wrong and use this as a learning experience.<br>
<br>
</div>Let me know where about it is you are, and perhaps we can arrange<br>
something. But be quick because Christmas is right here!<br>
<br>
Regards, Martin<br>
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