How do I install linux on a raid0?

[Tom Goren]

Micha Hi,

>From the little experience I had with this, I recall reading that these
'RAID controllers' on consumer level motherboards, aren't especially advised
for use with linux.

I don't know about Debian in this case, but here are the instructions for
Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

Personally I ended up using mdadm, but I didn't have the constriction of
having to dual boot Windows as well.

Have fun,

Tom

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Micha Feigin <michf at post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> I just got a new w520 with two 500GB hard drives configured in raid0 (seems
> to be a bios based software raid0). Windows is already installed and running
> on it (and I need it to stay there unfortunately) and I'm trying to install
> linux along side it (debian unstable).
>
> I got the installed running and it installed fine as it seems (although it
> looks like it messed up the partition table a bit as now I also have sda1
> and sda2 that weren't there to begin with I think), but I can't get grub to
> install and rescue mode also won't boot into linux no matter what drive I
> choose as root. I did manage to mount the partition from /dev/matter/...05
> and everything is installed on it, but again, no grub.
>
> Any ideas on how to get linux up and running (I need to boot into it
> somehow).
>
> I tried debian unstable installed from usb and debian live installed from
> usb, but neither goes past the grub step.
>
> I also tried following some instructions I found on the net saying to add
> dmraid=true to the command line during install and then again when grub
> fails when booting into recovery but no /dev/dm and no mounting the linux
> partition at that point so I can't continue.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
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