[Westwales] Windows 1: Linux 0

[Steve Caddy]

Robert Savage wrote:

> "Grub loading.......  Error 18" and it stopped dead. 

This is usually caused by the boot block being located in a location on the 
disc that the BIOS is unable to address (because the disc is larger than the 
BIOS can handle). The work around is to place the boot partition within the 
first 1000 cylinders of the disc. However, if you're playing with software 
driven RAID, then you'll have to take this into account too.

As David says, it's possible that windows and linux will handle software RAID 
differently, and possibly incompatibly. Further, you're shrinking the 
partitions down to 20G or so, which makes a nonsense of using RAID to generate 
a logical 500G drive.

Maybe you need to consider why you are using RAID (and the possible risks 
involved with that - 2 disc RAID arrays rarely make sense), and why you're 
splitting the disc up as you describe.

Steve

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Steven M Caddy, MEng ------------------------------------------------------
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