How to boot Windows XP over RAID 0 with grub?

mani001 · Guru Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 485 Location: Oleiros

I'm planning to create a RAID 0 dual installation of Gentoo and Windows XP, and the question is: is grub able to boot a RAID 0 Windows Partition (not the whole disk will be dedicated to Windows)?
Greetings

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:55 pm Post subject:

mani001,

Grub cannot boot from RAID 0 at all unless the BIOS presents the raid set as a single drive.
There are patches for Lilo for booting from RAID0.

You will be using dmraid and the gentoo liveCD here http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/gen2dmraid/ I suppose?
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