ModemMisuser
November 1st, 2008, 04:49 AM
Ok, I've got an odd dual boot situation I'm trying to get working.
I have an ASUS P5E Mobo, which has Intel ICH9R "fake" RAID onboard. I've got 3 disks total, 2 of them are setup as a stripe, and the other is a non-raid disk.
Vista Ultimate is installed on the stripe and has been working fine for ages.
I've installed Intrepid on the NON RAID disk.
I need to swap between the two and since the "fake" raid is a problem, I'm wanting to use Vista's boot manager to handle it.
When setup with the commonly found "use dd to grab the linux bootsector, then point Vista's loader to it" method... when I choose the Linux boot choice, GRUB just displays "GRUB" and halts.
If I go into the BIOS and change the boot order so that the non-raid disk is the primary drive, Linux will boot fine, no problem. But of course... no Vista.
The question is, why is GRUB halting on me, when I have the disks setup the way they need to be (with the stripe primary)?
I've got to find a way to get this thing working.
device.map:
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc
(/dev/sdc is where Linux is... sda and b are the drives that are part of the stripe)
menu.lst:
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
I have an ASUS P5E Mobo, which has Intel ICH9R "fake" RAID onboard. I've got 3 disks total, 2 of them are setup as a stripe, and the other is a non-raid disk.
Vista Ultimate is installed on the stripe and has been working fine for ages.
I've installed Intrepid on the NON RAID disk.
I need to swap between the two and since the "fake" raid is a problem, I'm wanting to use Vista's boot manager to handle it.
When setup with the commonly found "use dd to grab the linux bootsector, then point Vista's loader to it" method... when I choose the Linux boot choice, GRUB just displays "GRUB" and halts.
If I go into the BIOS and change the boot order so that the non-raid disk is the primary drive, Linux will boot fine, no problem. But of course... no Vista.
The question is, why is GRUB halting on me, when I have the disks setup the way they need to be (with the stripe primary)?
I've got to find a way to get this thing working.
device.map:
(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb
(hd2) /dev/sdc
(/dev/sdc is where Linux is... sda and b are the drives that are part of the stripe)
menu.lst:
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic
uuid 142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 142112cc-39b8-40ff-a88e-285bf24ce2ef
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet