Dual Boot with RAID

[tatteredpotato]

My buddy was asking about installing Ubuntu as a dual boot on his machine. He has windows installed on a 500 gig RAID, so my question is can gpart stably reduce that/repartiton it.

Also if he gets a cheapo HDD to install on, will the Windows install on the RAID be seen and added to Grub?

Basically how good is Ubuntu's RAID support.

 

[skyking]

Using a true hardware raid card, that would work. Both windows and ubuntu see the device as a single drive.
Using either windows or linux software raid, no way.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Originally posted by: skyking
Using a true hardware raid card, that would work. Both windows and ubuntu see the device as a single drive.
Using either windows or linux software raid, no way.

He's using the built-in RAID, so hes got a Windows softraid.

It appears that there are possibilities for this to work, but I think I'm just going to give him an old 20 gig HDD I have lying around and he can switch OSs in the BIOS.

Reference for anyone trying this:

Link

 

[skyking]

fixed linkage
Cool, I figured that to be a deal breaker.

 

[tatteredpotato]

Whoops, fixed mine too. Yea it'll work, but it looked complicated and he has no linux experience. Maybe when gpart support fakeraid.

 

[Nothinman]

Maybe when gpart support fakeraid.

That'll never happen. It's the job of the OS to support the storage, not the partitioning program.

edit: I should probably rephrase that a bit. Linux already supports most of the fakeraid formats so gparted should work fine on them. But how easy it is to get things going on them will vary from distro to distro.