Dual Boot Possible? -> linux = hda, Win2K3 = RAID

danatomic · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 3

I run Windows Server 2003 on my Promise FastTrakTX 2000. I dont have any harddrives plugged into my IDE sockets on my motherboard, but I have an extra drive that I want to hook up & run Gentoo on.

My question is this: How can I configure GRUB to let me boot to my RAID device when I want to run windows? I dont care about actually reading data from the array from linux, I just want to be able to boot to it.

Any assistance would be great. Thanks
Dan

cyrillic · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:42 am Post subject:

GRUB does not need any special configuration to boot from your array. If you have the BIOS set to boot from the array, GRUB will see it as (hd0). You can test this using a GRUB floppy.

danatomic · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 3

Nice, but what happens if I install a HD on my IDE controller? Would it not then become hd0?

I was hoping to do this so I wouldnt have to make any alterations to my raid volums at all, including installing grub there.

Thanks

cyrillic · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 3:04 am Post subject:

danatomic · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 3

Ok, I see. So then if I move my array to boot after my IDE drives then it would become hd1?

Considering that I will be installing a regular IDE drive to install linux on, I just have to configure GRUB to boot to hd1 for windows?

cyrillic · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

Windows only wants to boot from the first harddrive, but GRUB's map command can be used to trick the Windows bootloader into thinking it is on the first drive like this.