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[Stefan Meisner Larsen <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi again!

I have now wiped my windows partion (again...) and installed Ubuntu using
the alternative CD and using the recipe from youtube - software RAID0....and
it works!

Thanks a lot, guys!

Cheers,
Stefan

2010/3/29 Jan Groth <asiandub@xxxxxx>

> Stefan,
>
> I was just fighting with _exactly_ the same issue.
>
> The problem, as far as my interpretation goes, is the so called Fake RAID.
> Ubuntu / Linux simply cannot recognize this kind of RAID at boot time. There
> ARE workarounds (module dmraid) which can be found here:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto
> and here:
>
> http://bbossola.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/dmraid-on-ubuntu-with-sata-fakeraid/
>
> The first didn't work for me, haven't tried the latter.
>
> What finally DID work for me was the following:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x2rZe2Z9as
>
> :-)
>
> Took me over 2 days. I now have Karmic set up with a soft RAID 0, the Fake
> RAID is disabled in BIOS.
>
> Hope it helps you out,
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
>  On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Stefan Meisner Larsen <
> stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I found this mailing list in my search for a solution to my "simple"
>> problem.
>>
>> I have tried to install Ubuntu several times without any luck. A normal
>> installation fails when trying to install grub. When I specify that grub
>> should not be installed, the installation runs through, but the computer
>> won't boot.
>>
>> I have also tried to remove all windows partitions, that did not help
>> either.
>>
>> I have also tried to boot the installation without grub using
>> 'supergrub'...still no luck.
>>
>> The VPCZ11Z9E/B is very new and shiny, with 4 64 GB SSD disk in a RAID0
>> configuration giving a total of 4X64 GB SSD disk.
>>
>> Any help to get me up and running with any Linux distribution would be
>> much appreciated!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Stefan Meisner Larsen
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