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[Rutger Hendriks <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nice to hear!

I use no patches, just the linux16 and initrd16 in grub.cfg. I do not
know why it gives you the wrong colours. I have installed all Ubuntu
updates, maybe that helps for you too? Does X work ok for you?


2010/10/4 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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