Installing 10.3 Dual Boot Xp But..., XP is raid1

[dooglo]

Well, I'm new to Linux and SuSE, but not a total n00b. Was just wondering how hard it will be to install SuSE 10.3 64 bit on a seperate drive other than my XP Raid1. I'd like the XP raid not used. I have other drives I can install into my box but they are not sata like my raid, they are ide. Is this going to be a problem?

Thanks.

D.

[jayd512]

If you plan on installing an IDE drive for your SUSE install, it shouldn't be any problem at all. All you gotta do is make sure you choose the kernel with IDE support during the install.

[dooglo]

All you gotta do is make sure you choose the kernel with IDE support during the install.

I'm not sure what you mean.

[jayd512]

During the install, you should come to a point where the installer will ask you which kernel option you wanna use. Usually it'll be the default kernel loaded, but if you bring up info on them, you'll see that you can have support for SATA, IDE, etc... Just choose the option for IDE and you'll be fine.

[HROAdmin26]

This thread is in the SuSE forum so...

Installing SuSE (openSuSE or SLES), you don't get prompted to choose a kernel. (You don't even choose between the UNI or SMP kernels.)

The default kernel has support for SATA and IDE.

What you need to consider is how the machine will boot. I assume that right now, your mobo is set to boot off the "SATA RAID" which may be a PCI card that the mobo sees as a "SCSI" card, or onboard SATA/RAID. If you put an IDE HDD in the machine, you'll have to decide on what device the machine will boot from when using Linux - this will determine where the LILO/GRUB bootloader gets installed.

[dooglo]

Right now, my raid is controlled by onboard chipset. My motherboard is an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 w/ AMD 6400+. Also my raid is SATA, the drive I want to use for SUSE is an IDE.

So, your saying, when I get to partioning part of install, I just make sure that I have the GRUB on the IDE drive and the IDE drive be the BOOT drive not the RAID.

But when I set up the RAID, I set it up as a boot raid 1. Does this matter.

D.

[HROAdmin26]

Yep.

If you have the option to disable the onboard SATA, you can do that to further try and limit any access from Linux.

So every time you reboot to Linux, you have to go into the BIOS, change the boot order, and enable/disable any SATA/IDE as needed.

[dooglo]

So every time you reboot to Linux, you have to go into the BIOS, change the boot order, and enable/disable any SATA/IDE as needed.

Bummer.

Thanks.

D.

[gogalthorp]

Anytime you deal with RAID it is a problem. You would have the same problems dual booting two versions of Windows one on RAID the other not.

I think if you made the IDE the boot drive and then point Grub to the RAID drive to boot Windows it might work....maybe