Help! Dual Boot SuSE 9.1 + WinXP on NF7-S
ngfrazier
People's Republic of Ann Arbor
Hey guys,
Here's the dilemma...
I am unable to load SuSE 9.1 Pro and WinXP Pro. I can load one or the other, but not both. I have tried loading WinXP Pro first, then SuSE, but in the SuSE install it tells me that "the BIOS is incorrectly reporting my RAID setup as hardware when it fact it is a software RAID. If you proceed, ALL data will be erased." It tells me this even though I have partitioned my RAID into two sections.
Hardware Specs:
Abit NF7-S v2.0
Athlon XP 1.8Ghz@2.4Ghz
512 MB DDR 3200
GeForce3 Ti200
2x Seagate 200GB 7200.7 RAID 0 on Sil3112A onboard RAID
NEC 2510 DVD+RW
Antec TruePower 430
Coolermaster ATC-201 Case
I think the problem may be related to either install affecting the MBR. From what's I've read, a Linux/Windows install tends to work best if you avoid using LiLo or Grub and use instead the Windows boot loader. If any of you have any ideas or stories of how you got a dual boot RAID system to work please let me know. Thanks.
Here's the dilemma...
I am unable to load SuSE 9.1 Pro and WinXP Pro. I can load one or the other, but not both. I have tried loading WinXP Pro first, then SuSE, but in the SuSE install it tells me that "the BIOS is incorrectly reporting my RAID setup as hardware when it fact it is a software RAID. If you proceed, ALL data will be erased." It tells me this even though I have partitioned my RAID into two sections.
Hardware Specs:
Abit NF7-S v2.0
Athlon XP 1.8Ghz@2.4Ghz
512 MB DDR 3200
GeForce3 Ti200
2x Seagate 200GB 7200.7 RAID 0 on Sil3112A onboard RAID
NEC 2510 DVD+RW
Antec TruePower 430
Coolermaster ATC-201 Case
I think the problem may be related to either install affecting the MBR. From what's I've read, a Linux/Windows install tends to work best if you avoid using LiLo or Grub and use instead the Windows boot loader. If any of you have any ideas or stories of how you got a dual boot RAID system to work please let me know. Thanks.
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Hello...ello...oo...oo.....
I usually will set aside about 10GB for Linux on it's own drive or partition. I would assume that the same should work on a RAID array. Do you have a partition on the RAID array set aside for Linux? Is it unformatted space, or did you format it using NTFS but set it aside for Linux use? I know that SuSE has issues with NTFS, and if you formatted it with that file system, perhaps the installer is getting confused.
If you have a spare hard drive available to you, you may want to install it on it's own channel and try installing Linux on that drive, leaving Windows alone on the RAID.
Currently, my secondary system is using a 40GB drive for Windows, and two old spare drives for Linux. A 13GB for the main file systems, and a 10GB for my swap and /home directories. Everything installed flawlessly. But again, I am not using RAID. (I do however have an old ZIP 100 drive on one of my RAID channels. The drive is detected but does not function properly. However, I think that it is an issue with the drive itself because it used to work fine, but I cannot get it to function under Windows or Linux now...)
Anyway. I wish you good luck!