Fake Raid and lilo

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

Hi there,

Found the Gentoo and Ubuntu how to's on installing a dual boot system onto a fake raid using dmraid. It appears though, that they all use grub, and one would assume installing to the MBR? Now, has anyone used Lilo and have it installed to the root partition and peeled off the boot sector using dd, to enable booting from an XP/Vista boot manager?

Flame suite on :wink:

Mark

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject:

That method should work fine too, it is just more tedious than using GRUB directly. :wink:

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

Thanks for that...I tried Ubuntu this morning, got dmraid to see my Raid0, but when I used fdisk or gpart just to check it couldnt open the drive.....

Not sure if Gentoo live will support the Atheros wireless out of the box....time to pull out that long CAT5 cable..!

Mark

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

Hmmm, bummer

This iso is not there anymore....

cyrillic · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject:

I am pretty sure the stock Gentoo CDs support dmraid these days, but Atheros won't work until after you are done installing.

marky9074 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 196 Location: UK

Hmmm, didnt go to well...

Fatal : Linux Experimental device

...blah blah

Have to drop this project for now as boiler just gone boom and no water.... :roll: