On Friday 09 May 2008 15:14:01 Per Jessen wrote:
John wrote:
Disks were fake raided which caused the installer to give grub something it couldn't cope with. All files were correctly installed. I unraided them and suse still insisted it was a raid disk.
How do you define "unraid" ? You probably didn't change the partition types.
I think the only problem I've had with 10.3 and RAID is that it create the RAID superblock with a version that is incompatible with LILO - there's a bug report on that. Maybe it applies to GRUB too?
Right at the end it noticed a home directory with my user name and changed the ownership for me. Fine in this case but what if it had been 10.0.
AFAIR, it doesn't do that automatically. You have to say "yes, please" and click a button. Yes it did ask however if it had been 10.0 I would have wanted to retain the files for importing emails etc - most easily done by copying the lot into a
I split the discs and reset the bios to none raid etc. 2 problems in this area. The raid array causes a calculation error in grub. Plus intel must mark the disc in some way and do not clear it when the raid is split to separate discs in the bios so the installer just carries on setting up for raid and listing the discs separately. Only way I could fix that was by using bootfix in nt. My xp cd is early so newer ones might not even have the facility. I think the real problem here is that grub can't be getting correct disk information. directory. It didn't want to format my home partition as it was already ext3. It should be easy to spot linux formatted partitions with data on them.
Out of interest a number of people on the web seem to think that ntldr is the way forwards.
The internet has room for all kinds :-)
Maybe so but some of them are actually sensible. I think that they actually may mean something that run in an ntfs or fat partition might be a sensible solution. Wubi for instance uses grub4dos. I would too but I have the impression that it may not run on a ntfs disk. Documentation is scant.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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