{"id":2715,"date":"2010-09-02T23:43:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2010-09-02T23:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T22:43:23","slug":"installing-ubuntu-10-on-fake-raid-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/installing-ubuntu-10-on-fake-raid-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Ubuntu 10 on Fake RAID 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our company<\/a> bought a new PC recently that was delivered today.<\/p>\n

It came with Windows 7 preinstalled, and they had already partitioned the harddisks, so I thought installing Ubuntu 10 would be easy.<\/p>\n

What I hadn’t thought much about was the problems that would arise because I had ordered two harddisks with RAID 1 (mirror). As is often the case, RAID here meant Fake RAID, i.e., a mixture of software and hardware RAID, and Linux isn’t too fond of this.<\/p>\n

It looked OK initially, though. The Ubuntu 10 CD booted up happily, and it even recognised the Fake RAID setup.<\/p>\n

However, when I tried to install it, it refused to reformat the partition that I wanted to install Linux on. I searched on some Ubuntu forums, and somebody suggested to install Ubuntu 9 followed by Ubuntu 10.<\/p>\n

I tried this, and it actually worked. Ubuntu 9 was happy to reformat the partition, and Ubuntu 10 was happy to overwrite the old Ubuntu 9 files.<\/p>\n

Alas, the worst was still to come!<\/p>\n

Although I didn’t get any error messages, Grub (the boot loader) did not get installed correctly. I tried all sorts of suggestions<\/a>, but nothing worked. After installing Grub, the machine would boot happily straight into Windows 7. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I then found a blog posting<\/a> describing how to use Windows 7’s boot loader, BCDedit, to boot Linux. It looked promising, but it didn’t work either – after selecting Linux in the boot menu, I just got a blank screen with a blinking cursor.<\/p>\n

At this point, I was about to give up, but I then found a suggestion to use EasyBCD<\/a> to configure the Windows boot loader, and it works! EasyBCD finds the Grub loader on the Linux partition and activates it.<\/p>\n

Easy! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

tux laptop Originally uploaded by occ4m Our company bought a new PC recently that was delivered today. It came with Windows 7 preinstalled, and they had already partitioned the harddisks, so I thought installing Ubuntu 10 would be easy. What I hadn’t thought much about was the problems that would arise because I had ordered two harddisks with RAID 1 (mirror). As is often the case, RAID here meant Fake RAID, i.e., a mixture of software and hardware RAID, and Linux isn’t too fond of this. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}