Installing Ubuntu on SATA RAID 0

[Sean Hammond]

Disaster! It turns out the LiveCD doesn't work on the PC in mention, so we
are back to square one.

On 12/4/05, Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wow! Somehow I managed to miss your page, but it looks very interesting.
> I'll point my friend to it and if he gives it a try I'll let you know how he
> gets on. He may choose not to try it anyway, as currently he's resigned to
> waiting until he can get his hands on another hard drive, but at least he
> will know that something like this is out there and that he's far from being
> on his own.
>
> On 12/2/05, Phillip Susi <psusi at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > I was in the same boat.  It took me a few weeks to figure it all out,
> > but when I finally got ubuntu and winxp dual booting from my hardware
> > fakeraid raid0, I wrote a howto on the wiki at
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto that explains what you need to do.
> >
> > If you have any trouble following it, you may want to reply here, but CC
> >
> > me as well so I don't miss it ( I got a LOT of email ).
> >
> > Sean Hammond wrote:
> > > So I know someone who has two drives in a SATA RAID 0 stripe, using a
> > > Silicon Image 3112A chip (which is fakeraid), and was wondering if
> > > anyone with Linux raid experience might be able to offer anything.
> > >
> > > He has Windows XP installed currently, and might be interested enough
> > to
> > > install Ubuntu if it can dual-boot, but has given up because the
> > > complications introduced by his RAID setup were too much.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to get Ubuntu to install dual-boot on a system like
> > this?
> > > Are there drivers available in the Ubuntu installer that support this
> > > chip? If so, exactly what would have to be done during install to get
> > > them running? He tells me the Ubuntu installer didn't work in the
> > normal
> > > way, I think maybe it didn't automatically detect his partitions.
> > >
> > > As I understand it we can't use Linux's software raid drvier 'md',
> > > because this would require us to delete the current 'fakeraid'
> > > partitions, destroying his data, and in any case there's no way
> > Windows
> > > is going to run on Linux partitions so dual-boot would be impossible.
> > >
> > > If there is no driver in the Ubuntu installer, then I think our
> > options are:
> > >
> > > 1. Install Ubuntu on some other, non-raid volume, then install the
> > > needed raid support, then migrate Ubuntu. Sounds pretty troublesome, I
> > > don't think he's willing to go to so much trouble.
> > >
> > > 2. Rebuild the Ubuntu installer with the necessary raid support, then
> > > install. I have no idea what would be required here or how to rebuild
> > > the Ubuntu installer.
> > >
> > > 3. Switch the bios to ATA, install Ubuntu, then install the raid
> > > support, then switch the BIOS back. Not sure if this is possible or
> > not.
> > > Would this work in the dual-boot situation?
> > >
> > > Thanks for any input.
> > >
> >
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