Installing Ubuntu Breezy on a SATA RAID array

[Phillip Susi]

You might want to take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto.

Using the md driver with the hardware in non raid mode should work, but 
at least /boot has to be on a normal partition, or a raid1, not raid0 or 
raid5.  By using the hardware fakeraid support, you can boot directly 
from a raid0, including dual booting with windows.

By the way, don't you mean Western Digital Raptor, not Seagate?

Chris Morrison wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to install Ubuntu on my new computer without success.
> 
> My motherboard has the NIVIDIA nForce 3 chipset with onboard SATA RAID,
> I have two Seagate Raptor drives connected to the first two RAID ports.
> 
> When I run the Ubuntu Installer, I choose 'manually configure the
> partition table' and I use the software RAID driver to create an 'md'
> RAID array with these two drives.
> 
> However, when I try to automatically partition the new 'md' volume it
> fails with an error saying there are too many primary partitions in the
> partition table. I have tried making the RAID partitions on the two
> drives logical instead of primary but I get the same error.
> 
> Does anyone know how to install on a SATA RAID array or where I can find
> instructions?
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> 
> Chris Morrison
>