Booting a ICH5R array from Grub

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:36:30PM +0100, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I recently installed Fedora Core 3 on a separate PATA IDE disk
> together with the Grub bootloader. I've got several windows paritions
> (including windows boot) on a SATA RAID0 array.
> 
> After installing dmraid and the NTFS tools I was able to map and mount
> these partitions in FC3, but one question remains: How can I boot
> windows from on my stripe through Grub on the new PATA disk?

Presumably you can access your Windows boot disk as /dev/hdb,
your grub menu.lst file should contain something like:

title Windows
    root (hd1,0)
    chainloader +1

and your grub device.map:

(hd1)   /dev/hdb

> 
> As it is now I'm forced to press F8 at boot to get a boot menu from my
> ASUS P4P800 and then select either the array or the PATA disk with
> grub on it, but it would be nice to avoid that. I read in the archives
> about installing Grub to a ICH5R array, but I don't feel entirely
> comfortable with that, and it should be just as easy going the other
> way around... or?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> --
> Tarjei
> 
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