Grub error 22 upon booting - Using a seperate HDD for Linux and RAID 0 for Vista

[Guest]

I have 4 hard drives in my system. The first 2 (sata) are for Vista 64 in RAID 0. The 3rd is a WinXP drive and the 4th is the Linux drive. I think the problem is that GRUB won't install on the RAID volume and I assume I need a special driver when I install Linux.

Mobo: nVidia nforce 590 SLI
Proc: AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 Dual Core
Mem: 3GB DDR2 DC

Is there a specific file I need to download from this site to have Kubuntu recognize the RAID disks.

Tim
DAP

[eriefisher]

Re: Grub error 22 upon booting - Using a seperate HDD for Linux and RAID 0 for Vista

I assume XP and Linux are not raid? IDE? I would not install grub into the mbr of vista, instead I would install it on the linux drive and then just add the other drives to the /boot/grub/menu.lst. This way linux does not touch you windows drives but they should show up under the boot menu. This might help some.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ghlight=124989

The application is different but the theory should work. Not sure with raid though.

eriefisher

[davidb]

Re: Grub error 22 upon booting - Using a seperate HDD for Linux and RAID 0 for V

I had the same problem when installing debian on my desktop. Unfortunately, I became frustrated to the point of giving up (but this was almost a year ago). The problem is this: mobo manufactures (unless you pay a LOT of money for a really really nice motherboard) use something called "fakeraid" in order to emulate a hardware raid. Such a configuration requires software drivers in the operating system.

If you look around on nvidia's website (your mobo manufacturer) they cite this issue: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/n...i=&p_topview=1

They recommend the software package "dmraid" which is the "driver" that you will need. Luckily for you, the problem has already been more or less solved. Check out this page on the ubuntu wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto (I haven't tried this guide, but skimming through it - it looks pretty good).

Good luck! Maybe I'll try it again with debian once I get my desktop backed up (yeah.. like that's ever happen :P)