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[John Evans <bucksteep@xxxxxxxxx>]

When running the LiveCD (*), once I installed the package "kpartx" via
Synaptic, gparted could finally understand my RAID0 striped disks and see my
existing NTFS partition.

John E.

(* This was the Maverick CD; but the Natty CD may also omit kpartx.)


On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Yair Sela <yairsela@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello guys,
>
> After digging our threads and tons of online forums, I've decided to ask
> for help/suggestions myself;
>
> My laptop (Z139GG) has 8GB RAM, 4x64GB SSD drive and i7-640 CPU, running
> Windows 7 64bit.
>
> I have downloaded the 64bit desktop image for Natty (11.04), shrinked my
> main partition by 10 GB and rebooted from the LiveCD.
>
> Installer loaded well (was surprised graphics and even touchpad wotked
> straight off) - I have created 2 logical ext4 partitions - 8GB for root, 2
> GB for /home and hit 'Forward' (on the checkbox below I chose /dev/sda for
> GRUB). Installer finished copying files and then asked to restart.  I
> removed the CD, rebooted. and got thrown to grub rescue mode, with an error
> of "cannot find ...........".
>
> I fixed my MBR using Windows 7 setup disk, and rebooted to windows, deleted
> the logical partitions the installer created and rebooted again with the
> LiveCD.
>
> This time I created the extended space, and logical drives with GParted
> (formatted them ext4 too), and clicked install right after that - this time
> installer ran all the way but just at the end (GRUB setup part) gave me an
> error saying GRUB could not set itself on /dev/sda.  I was given me a combo
> with all other partitions shown, but the "OK" button did not respond for
> any other option I tried..
>
> Bottom line - I've freed up space on my HD, cannot make GRUB work well,
> unable to install.
>
> 1) Have I missed any special steps necessary in order to help GRUB identify
> my root partition (considering the fact I've got RAID0 on my SSD drive)?
> 2) Should I try running the installer again from the Alternate version?
> 3) Is Adam's kernel patch still necessary on 11.04?
> 4) Should I install GRUB on my "/" partition and chain it with a different
> boot manager?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
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> Yair Sela*
> *Computer Science division, TAU
> *
>
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