Installing on computer with multiple hard drives

[Duncan Anderson]

On Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:49, Paul Barry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Ubuntu 5.10 on a system with multiple hard drives. 
> I have an ASUS P4P800 motherboard, 2 SATA drives configured in a RAID1
> using the motherboard RAID controller (Intel Integrated RAID for Serial
> ATA)m a 320GB IDE master drive and a 120GB IDE slave drive.  I have windows
> XP installed on the SATA RAID and I'm using the IDE Master drive in windows
> for extra storage.  I want to install Ubuntu on the IDE slave drive.  I
> downloaded the DVD ISO, Burn it, booted the live DVD, was working great, so
> now I want to install it.  So I did the install on the IDE slave, mostly
> followed the default options.  Now, when I reboot, it just goes right into
> Windows.  I assume this is because Ubuntu put the boot loader on the IDE
> slave drive, and my system is booting the Intel SATA RAID, so it just goes
> right into Windows?  So I tried reconfiguring the Boot settings in the BIOS
> to the IDE slave drive that should have Ubuntu on it, but when it tries to
> boot, I just get a black screen with "Error loading operation system" in
> white letters.  So I put the boot settings back to the Intel RAID, and
> windows still works ok, but my question is how can I boot the Ubuntu that
> is installed on the IDE Slave drive?  And can I install a boot loader
> somehow so that I can just pick between Windows on the Intel SATA RAID and
> Ubuntu on the IDE Slave drive?

I would overwrite the MBR with Lilo, after creating entries in the lilo.conf 
file accordingly, ie. point "boot=" at /dev/sda, and so on. I am sure the 
same can be done with GRUB.

Using fdisk or a variant, you set the Windows partition bootable and then set 
up an entry in lilo which points to the Windows partition.

The trick is getting Ubuntu to boot up so you can run lilo. Well you could 
boot off the cd and add "root=/dev/hdd1" or whatever to the boot line.

These are just a few thoughts, no handholding, sorry.

cheers
Duncan

		
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