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[Yair Sela <yairsela@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks guys, worked perfectly.

(GRUB haven't shown the mapper address, had to open a shell and find out
what it was..)

Any important issues I should read about?
(I've read some tips for using SSD drives in linux, and long threads about
enabling the nVidia graphics card)

Great day!

*Yair*.

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Heikki Wilenius <heikki.wilenius@xxxxxx>wrote:

> The ubuntu alternate 64-bit install cd (at least with 10.10) asked
> whether you want to enable RAID support at the beginning of the
> install process. I answered yes, and like Rutger, had no problems at
> all.
>
> Cheers,
> Heikki
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Rutger Hendriks
> <rutgerhendriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I had similar problems with the desktop cd. Using the alternate cd worked
> > like a charm.
> > Grub should be installed to /dev /mapper/xxxVolumep0 or similar.
> >
> > Op 3 mei 2011 18:15 schreef "Yair Sela" <yairsela@xxxxxxxxx> het
> volgende:
> >> 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,
> >>
> >> --
> >> *
> >> ___________________________________
> >> Yair Sela*
> >> *Computer Science division, TAU
> >> *
> >
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