Guest tweetybird Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Am running XP Pro on SATA RAID0 setup on Intel ICH5R controller. HAve parititioned drives and installed Mandrake to an IDE drive. Installation went OK Have Boot Magic installed and as far as I can tell is properly configured. However, when I use BootMagic to choose Mandrake, it just sits there and does nothing. I can go into the bios and change my hard disk boot priority to the IDE drive instead of the RAID and will boot just fine into Mandrake. Have changed the bootloader to Grub and gave that a try - no go still. Need to figure out how to boot to either OS wihtout having to go into bios everytime. I guess other option would be if there is a way to get Mandrake to recognize my hardware RAID during setup so that I could install to the RAID array. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 Welcome! First, I know nothing about Raid :D Is BTMagic on the raid? Sorry if this is a silly question but, are you installing grub to the bootsector of / ? or the ide hd's mbr? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tweetybird Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 RAID0 - has XP and 3 extra partitions - all NTFS IDE - 100MB FAT16 partition where BTMAgic was installed from XP 15 gb partition - FAT32 15 gb partition with Mandrake I believe the bootloader is installed in / but am not sure, it did not ask me where to install it The drive with Mandrake was not a bootable drive with my bios setup during the installation and the partition was not set as active until after install Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 29, 2004 Report Share Posted June 29, 2004 it doesn't ask...it defaults to the mbr. You have to tell it to install to /...I believe theres an advanced button or something. Used to be at the last Summary screen.....maybe both.....my mind is bottlenecked rt now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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