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I currently have 4 drives setup in Raid 10. I've tried installing Ubuntu straight to the metal but it does not recognize my Windows partition and upon quitting the installation and then restarting, my raid goes Offline.

Ive also tried creating a partition and using the Windows version of the installer (through windows). When it restarts and begins finalizing the installation, it snags and complains that it can not find the installation iso. Again, restarting shows that my raid members are offline.

Any ideas?

ppetraki
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Chance
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It sounds like you've got a "fake raid" system. That is, the operating system directly accesses the disks and the BIOS has enough smarts to boot off such RAID disk sets.

This is supported in Linux via the dmraid package, which should configure the the set as a /dev/mapper/something device (you don't want to install anything to the underlying /dev/sdX devices, since they refer to individual member disks in the RAID set). The following page should give some details on how to install Ubuntu on such a system:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto

When booting from the install CD, it would be worth picking the "Try Ubuntu" option first and checking whether the RAID set has been detected correctly.

James Henstridge
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Not sure if this will help or not, but you may want to check this out: http://salamander-linux.com/install.php

Ctuchik
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