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[Matteo Carminati <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Rutger!

Following your suggestions I managed to shrink the win7 partition and
install Ubuntu 10.10, maintaining the original RAID configuration. Moreover
I hadn't problems installing grub in a small /boot partition!
Before editing the grub.cfg file I had only a black screen, now Ubuntu can
boot, but the colours on the screen are completely wrong, as they appeared
booting from the liveCD without nomodeset option.
What have you done in order to have one of the two graphic cards working? Is
there any kernel patch to apply, as it was for the 34 kernel version?

Thank you again!
Best regards,

Matteo


2010/10/2 Rutger Hendriks <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Matteo,
>
> I've seen other people talking about changing the raid config, because
> installation failed otherwise, but I did not have that problem. So my
> raid config is still as was originally (4 * 64 in raid0).
>
> In short I did this to install Ubuntu 10.10 64bit beta:
> - Boot from the Ubuntu 10.10 beta 64bit DVD. This was rather hard
> because the graphics do not get initialised properly, I think what did
> the trick was booting to windows first and then booting to the DVD,
> but it's been a while ago I tried.
> - Resize the Windows disk. I tried resizing from Windows, but that
> only allowed me to shrink it by around 100Gb or so. From Linux I could
> resize to it any value. After resizing you have to boot Windows again
> to let it scan / fix the ntfs. Then again boot the DVD.
> - Now I could install Ubuntu 10.10 beta 64bit without problems. The
> four 64Gb ssd's were named /dev/sda to /dev/sdd. Don't use these
> directly because they are used in the raid array. Instead use
> /dev/mapper/xxxx_Volumexxx. Simply add an extended partition to
> /dev/mapper/xxx_Volume0 and add your Linux partitions in there. These
> will be named e.g. /dev/mapper/xxx_Volume05, 06 and 07.
> - I installed grub to /dev/mapper/xxx_Volume0. I think I did that
> manually because the installer gave an error.
> - I edited /boot/grub/grub.cfg to change linux to linux16 and initrd
> to initrd16, and I have added these kernel options: i8042.nopnp
> acpi_backlight=vendor. I don't need the 'nomodeset' kernel option with
> the change to linux16 and initrd16. Now I can use the intel graphics
> correctly, except that brightness does not work yet.
>
> I hope this helps anyone installing Linux while keeping Windows 7 up
> and running.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Rutger Hendriks
>
> 2010/10/2 Matteo Carminati <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Thank you all for the answers!
> > I tried with the beta of ubuntu 10.10, as suggested by Michael, but I was
> > not able to force vesa drivers to have a graphical interface nor to use
> the
> > alternate edition to perform a text installation (since the mirror could
> not
> > recognize the maverick release). Am I doing something wrong? Any other
> > suggestion?
> > Otherwise, I'll get rid of the and try to install both the OSs, hoping it
> > could work.
> > Best,
> > Matteo
> > 2010/9/30 Michael Schramm <michael.schramm@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Have you tried to use the beta of ubuntu 10.10?
> >> That worked for a friend of mine.
> >>
> >> Br michael
> >>
> >> Am 30.09.2010 19:26 schrieb "Matteo Carminati"
> >> <carminati.matteo@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> >
> >> > This is my first mail in this mailing-list and I hope I could be
> helpful
> >> > in
> >> > the future, even if I'm not a linux expert, but now I need some help.
> >> > I bought a VPCZ1290X (4GB RAM - 2x128 GB SSD - 1600x900 screen), a
> pair
> >> > of
> >> > weeks ago and I now want to have linux on it.
> >> >
> >> > I'd like to have both win and a linux distribution on it, but I did
> not
> >> > found a way to install linux without deleting the original win7
> >> > installation, due to the RAID 0 configuration of the two SSDs that
> >> > cannot be
> >> > recognized by all the linux installers I tryed.
> >> > What I want to do is to disable the RAID 0 configuration in the bios,
> >> > but I
> >> > suppose in this way the win7 installation will be corrupted. Is this
> >> > correct?
> >> > Is there another way to install both linux and win, preserving the
> >> > original
> >> > win7 installation?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you all for the answers!
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Matteo
> >
> >
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